Quotes about War Mistake

Rand Paul

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

Jacob Weisberg

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism that America had no choice but to pursue.

Stephen Ambrose

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

David Halberstam

[Vietnam was] the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Hillary Clinton

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Wesley Clark

I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

Spike Milligan

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

David Brooks

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

Harry Reid

Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.

Dean Acheson

It [the Vietnam War] is worse than immoral. It's a mistake.

See Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe for a similar statement over a century earlier.

Tucker Carlson

If things do get better in Iraq, I'm saying as someone who thinks the war was a mistake. I'm saying that is cause for us all to have a huge party. It's a big deal if things get better. Because if they don't get better, our country is going to be hurt for generations.

Raul Grijalva

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Walter Cronkite

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

Michael Moore

Going to war was a mistake -- a big mistake. You and your administration misled us into this war.

The facts given by the administration to justify the preemptive invasion of Iraq turned out to be wrong. Moore who is usually not very circumspect in his accusations delicately used the term “misled” as the major debate became one or whether 1) the wrong intelligence was given to the President and his administration and they unknowingly used and reported the false information to the public. 2) the uncertainty of the intelligence accuracy and the contrary evidence was given to the administration which had a predisposition to believe one scenario and the deluded themselves and our allies and the public. 3) The decision to invade Iraq was made with full knowledge that the intelligence was wrong in some areas and weak in others and some administration members pressured the intelligence agencies to make the kind of assessment they administration wanted. “Misled” covers all 3 possibilities.

Daniel Barenboim

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

George Orwell

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Newt Gingrich

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

War Mistake Quotes