I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself ...
Charles Kennedy 18/03/2003
Category: War on Iraq
The wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time against the wrong enemy.
Peter Kilfoyle 18/03/2003
On the planned war in Iraq
Category: War on Iraq
Hit them! Fight them! They are evil aggressors damned by God. You are victorious and they are defeated. Fight them as your brothers and sons fought them... Fight them everywhere as you are fighting them today, and do not give them a chance to catch their breath until they announce and carry out their withdrawal from the homes of Muslims.
Saddam Hussein 01/04/2003
Category: War on Iraq
We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.
George W Bush 31/03/2003
Category: War on Iraq
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
Tony Blair 27/03/2003
Speaking after the bodies of two British soldiers were shown on Arabic television
Category: War on Iraq
O great people, O splendid men, the mujahideen of our heroic Armed Forces, O sons of our glorious Arab nation. With the dawn prayer today, the reckless criminal, little Bush, and his henchmen carried out their crime with which they had been threatening Iraq and humanity.
Saddam Hussein 20/03/2003
On the beginning of the US strikes against Baghdad.
Category: War on Iraq
This will not be a campaign of half measures and we will accept no outcome but victory. My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others. And we will prevail.
George W Bush 20/03/2003
Announcing the beginning of the war on Iraq
Category: War on Iraq
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
Tony Blair 18/03/2003
House of Commons speech
Category: War on Iraq
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
Category: War on Iraq
I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
On weapons of mass destruction.
Category: War on Iraq
And our job, my nation that watched you grow, that you've fought alongside and now fights alongside you, that takes enormous pride in our alliance and great affection in our common bond, our job is to be there with you. You're not going to be alone. We'll be with you in this fight for liberty.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
