“I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.”
George W. Bush
“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks . . . of biological and chemical weapons.”
Bill Clinton
“As long as there's unrest in the Middle East and troops in Iraq, commodity prices will remain high. Oil and gas companies are spending greater amounts of capital investing in exploration and development, which is our particular niche, and that's going to generate a lot of projects in the coming years.”
Alexander Kinzler
“Poland wants the stabilization mission in Iraq to be a success... Our troops are in Iraq and they will stay in Iraq until the end of January, and the decision has been made and nothing changes here.”
Aleksander Kwasniewski
“Saddam Hussein has told his people that U.S. troops will commit suicide when they get to the gates of Baghdad. That's when you know you have a bad army, when your only hope for victory is that the enemy's troops kill themselves.”
Jay Leno
“By the middle of next year, more than 30,000 foreign troops will pull out of Iraq.”
Muwaffaq Rubaie
“An immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq will only strengthen the terrorists' hand in Iraq and in the broader war on terror,”
Mr Bush
