This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.
The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the Neo-Con-Artists seized the economy and added $4 trillion of unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay four times more for defence, three times more for gasoline and home-heating oil...
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, beca...
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.
God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime...
We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best youn...
We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
