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Iraq War

Monday 2nd of March 2026

2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason Iraq's become a shithole Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I was against going into war in Iraq. Donald Trump, who was for it in September, 2002, six months before it began, but opposed to it in August, 2004, seventeen months after it began © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The overthrow of Saddam Hussein, that miliary action, was a resounding success. John Bolton © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death TAG GOES HERE Text on the tattoo of an arrow pointing to the big toe on a soldier's foot Described by Matt Taibbi in “Fort Apache, Iraq” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Elections Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet. Donald Rumsfeld, on the low-turnout, violence-ridden, Sunni-boycotted elections in Iraq in 2005 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Immigration Denied as a matter of discretion for security-related reasons. Text of a form letter sent by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to Iraqis applying for a visa after risking their lives for years by serving Americans in Iraq as drivers, translators, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Impeachment DONALD TRUMP: When she [Nancy Pelosi] first got in and was named Speaker, I met her. And I'm very impressed by her. I think she's a very impressive person. I like her a lot. But I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost – it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing. WOLF BLITZER: Impeaching him? DONALD TRUMP: Absolutely. For the war. For the war! Well, he lied! He got us into a war with lies, and I mean, look at the trou- ble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. From a 2008 interview © 2020 Kwiple.com
Iraq War $1,700,000,000,000 pissed away, and counting © 2015 Kwiple.com
Iraq War As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have a later time. Donald Rumsfeld, 2004, response to a soldier who asked why, nearly two years after the start of the war, soldiers had to pick through landfills to find scrap metal to up-armor vehicles with needed protection against IEDs (improvised explosive devices) © 2015 Kwiple.com
Iraq War Bush Lied, People Died antiwar slogan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Iraq War I was for it when six out of ten were for it. I'm for it when six out of ten are against it. Rudy Giuliani © 2018 Kwiple.com
Iraq War In Iraq, we joke that the best way not to get arrested is to be seen running toward the scene of an explosion. Eric Fair, Consequence: A Memoir © 2016 Kwiple.com
Iraq War The Iraq War is like the sun: no one wants to stare at it too long. Matt Taibbi, “Bush vs. the Mother” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Iraq War My Sudanese translator struggles to understand my English. The detainee struggles to understand the dialect of the tranlator. The translator struggles to understand the Arabic of the detainee. I struggle to understand the English of the translator. It takes nearly two hours to collect enough information to write a report that says, “Detainee doesn't seem to understand questions about chemical weapons.” Eric Fair, Consequence: A Memoir © 2016 Kwiple.com
Iraq War So many bodies were found floating in the Tigris that some Iraqis stopped eating fish, claiming its flavor had changed from nibbling on human flesh. Dead animals were used to conceal roadside bombs. Bodies of dead Iraqis were booby-trapped to blow up relatives who approached them. Mentally disabled children were turned into suicide bombers. Funerals were frequently the target of attacks. The morgues were full of mutilated bodies: If the head was cut off, it was Shia; if the head was drilled through, it was Sunni. Emma Sky, The Unraveling © 2015 Kwiple.com
Iraq War This is the place where two existential dead ends have come around in a circle to meet in an irreconcilable explosion of violence — the bureaucratic ennui and intellectual confusions of modern civilized man versus the recalcitrant prehistoric fanaticism of Al Qaeda's literally cave-dwelling despotic mob. Matt Taibbi, “Fort Apache, Iraq” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Iraq War Tyler and Hoagie … take a few minutes to show us how to use the chair. Captain Dent looks on as they explain to us how the Palestinian chair works. It takes only a few minutes. The chair forces you to support all of your weight with your thighs. Once they give out, you basically start to suffocate. They say everyone breaks in the chair. Eric Fair, Consequence: A Memoir © 2016 Kwiple.com
Iraq War When I arrived, one of the questions put to me was, “What do we need to do to be loved?” I told them that people who invaded other people's countries, and killed people who were no threat to them, would never be loved. Emma Sky, political adviser to General Ray Odierno © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say ’Tis a pity intelligence about Iraq was so bad © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people, a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign. Donald Rumsfeld, 2003 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The force is not broken. It is a force that has been deployed, functioned effectively and, as I say, battlefield-hardened. Donald Rumsfeld, 2006, denying the Iraq War is “breaking” the Army, as alleged in a Pentagon-sponsored report © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I don't do quagmires. Donald Rumsfeld © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Stuff happens. Donald Rumsfeld, on mayhem in Baghdad following America's invasion of Iraq © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You have sacrificed nothing and no one. Donald Trump portrayed by Khizr Khan, father U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq while protecting his troops © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Iraqi Head Seeks Arms citation newspaper headline quoted by David Boersema Philosophy Now, Dec. 2015/Jan. 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Surely you jest People don't know this about Iraq but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com