“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it.”
— Dwight David Eisenhower

“I fully understand that the intelligence was wrong,
and I’m just as disappointed as everybody else is.”
— George W. Bush, April 7, 2006

“I will not convene an accountability board
to judge the performances of any individual
CIA officers.”   — J. Porter Goss

“Once a government is committed to the
principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go, and
that is down the path of increasingly
repressive measures, until it becomes a
source of terror to all its citizens and
creates a country where everyone lives in
fear.”
— Harry S Truman

“It is the Iraqis’ country, 28 million of
them. They are perfectly capable of running
that country. . . . Our problem is that
anytime something needs to be done, we have a
feeling we should rush in and fill the vacuum
and do it ourselves.”
— Donald Rumsfeld, 29 November 2005