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As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it's not going to stay together.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.