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The Iraq war was not necessary.

— Scott McClellan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— William Odom

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

— Virgil Goode

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

— Charles B. Rangel

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

— Peter Brimelow

Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.

— John Chilcot

Iraq is not about oil.

— Bobby Ray Inman

A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.

— Lee Kuan Yew

There never was a war that was not inward.

— Marianne Moore

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

— Robert Byrd

✗Opposing Perspectives

Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.

— Arthur L. Herman