The foundation of our involvement in Iraq is as corrupt as you can possibly imagine. We went to war on a lie. |
The guilt can be spread fairly evenly across the board, |
The U.N. inspection teams were not spies, |
There has been no case made -- based on anything other than speculation -- that Iraq poses a threat. |
There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government. |
This refusal ... in effect means we cannot carry out our inspection and is a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligations. |
This refusal means we can't carry out our inspections -- it is a failure of Iraq to comply with obligations, |
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause. |
we can't go to war based on ignorance. |
We had the information. We had the goods on the Iraqis, clear and irrefutable evidence of Iraq's prohibited activities. We caught them red-handed. |
We had the proof. We couldn't present it. And that's where we are today. |
We have inspectors on the ground. They're getting compliance. They're doing their job and they're not finding anything that warrants a threat worthy of war, |
We have thousands of American veterans who continue to suffer, |
We just don't know when, but it's going to happen. |
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for. |