I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
The Iraq war was not necessary.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.