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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.