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We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

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.

We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.

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

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.

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.

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.