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Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

Iraq is not about oil.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.