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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.
John Barrasso
Will
Country
Controlling
Military
Defeat
Boots
Could
Taken
Over
Concern
Because
Iran
Ultimately
Iraq
Ground
Actually
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.
John Boehner
Fight
Will
Other
Side
Aisle
Distraction
Some
Retreat
Refer
Question
Iraq
Friends
Often
Us
We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.
John Chilcot
Time
Exhausted
Before
Action
Military
Resort
Invasion
Join
Had
Disarmament
Concluded
Been
Iraq
Options
Military Action
Peaceful
Chose
Last
Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.
John Chilcot
Hussein
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Were
Iraq
After
Inadequate
Planning
Preparations
Wholly
Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.
John Chilcot
Ability
Blair
Overestimated
His
Iraq
Influence
Decisions
In practice, the U.K.'s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.
John Chilcot
Practice
Relation
Consistent
Objective
Most
Forces
Reduce
Iraq
Deployed
Strategic
Level
The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
John Conyers
Build
Numerous
Other
Casey
General
Troops
Globe
Terrorist
Insurgency
Iraq
American
Acknowledged
Experts
Across
American Troops
Helping
Presence
Numbers
I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
John Conyers
War
Veteran
Our
Out
Troops
Support
Support Our Troops
Soon
Safely
Advocating
Am
Korean
Korean War
Iraq
Done
Anyone
Much
Body
Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.
John Cornyn
World
Liberty
Country
Else
Willing
Deliver
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Blessings
Altruistic
Said
Go
George
George W
Iraq
George W. Bush
Grab
Oil
Places
Mean
Bush
Reasons
I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.
John Culberson
Vote
Military
President
Complete
Our
States
Troops
Support
Mission
Until
Iraq
Going
Convinced
United
United States
Keeping
President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.
John Dickerson
Simple
First
Looking
Ideology
Says
Syria
He
Taking
Days
Within
Spread
His
Trump
Iraq
Office
Donald
Donald Trump
Plan
Even
Suffered
Defeating
Violent
Setbacks
According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
John Doolittle
War
Election
Important
Single
Various
Week
Economy
Most
Important Issue
Terror
Issue
Cultural
Iraq
Iraq War
According
Polls
Even
Last
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
John Doolittle
War
Future
Freedom
World
Country
Consequences
Our
Soldiers
Dire
Around
Opinion
Iraq
Being
Public
Realm
Public Opinion
Played
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
John Linder
Death
Progress
Three
Immense
Citizens
Threatened
Had
Voted
Years
Iraq
Just
Achieved
Being
Which
While
Successful
Elections
Even
In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
John Linder
Work
Freedom
Three
Nothing
Has-Been
Rather
Fact
Perfect
Remarkable
Major
Along
Well
Course
Messy
Been
Iraq
In Fact
Moving
Interests
Cooperation
Things
The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.
John Linder
Home
Win
Will
Hoped
Winning
Also
Forces
Iraq
We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
John M. McHugh
Health
Mental Health
Before
Programs
Our
Mental
Troops
Support
Support Our Troops
Particularly
Policies
Iraq
Families
Afghanistan
After
Deployment
Interested
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
John McCain
Today
Justice
Peace
Fight
Liberty
Will
Value
Important
Our
East
Secure
More
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Greater
Built
Conditions
Iraq
Than
Human
Middle
Middle East
Even
Found
Foundations
Two
We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
John McCain
Home
Genocide
Win
Will
Chaos
Must
Follow
Withdraw
Iraq
Us
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
Will
Citizen
Face
Military
Our
Battlefield
Response
Brunt
Troops
Attack
He
Iraq
Person
Trying
Afghanistan
Full
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver
War
Leadership
President
States
Has-Been
Cost
Civilian
Disaster
Rendered
Policy
Occupation
Been
Iraq
Conduct
Decisions
Bush
Choice
Many
Strategic
United
Lives
United States
Incompetent
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
John Olver
War
Result
President
Back
Terror
How
Doing
Been
Iraq
Truthful
Decades
America
Bush
Assessment
Set
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.
John Olver
War
World
Islam
President
Alienated
Attack
Part
Thus
Islamic
Iraq
Bush
Fifth
Viewed
Communities
Large
Population
Large Part
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
John Olver
Future
Conflict
Training
Key
Police
Focus
Doctors
Build
Soldiers
Months
Sectarian
Civil
More
Remaining
Involvement
Police Officers
Judges
Robust
Iraq
Iraqi
End
Officers
Achieving
Should
Teachers
International
Elements
Needed
Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
John Olver
Destruction
President
President Bush
Weapons
Had
Mass
Mass Destruction
None
Cheney
Were
Repeatedly
Iraq
American
Vice
Vice President
Bush
Found
Ever
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
John Perkins
Buy
Men
Arabia
Tried
Hussein
Scenario
Economic
Step
Fail
Implement
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Call
Policy
Iraq
Hit
Same
Successful
Next
Next Step
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
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