Quote by John Boehner

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice tha

Summary

This quote highlights the perspective that Operation Iraqi Freedom, a military intervention in Iraq initiated by the United States in 2003, was criticized as a discretionary action rather than a crucial part of the broader global fight against terrorism. It argues that those who labeled it as a war of choice should consider the impact on the terrorist organization al Qaeda, potentially suggesting that the operation served to disrupt their activities or agenda. The quote challenges the notion that Operation Iraqi Freedom was unrelated to the wider war on terror.

Topics

By John Boehner

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feat

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Freedom Friendship Friends Birds Letting Go

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that the

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Authors & Writing

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern ar

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me

O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 y

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than th

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Sidney Woolf

The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he does

The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to our lives. We can pick up Time magazine and get that account of what happened, but what truly happened we must get from the artist. To me that war was a nightmare and it is best expressed in a surreal way. And that is why it is written in that style and in that attitude. War is a form of madness.

William Eastlake, interview, 197

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imaginati

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Jean Baudrillard

Authors & Writing

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiti

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Heaven Earth Fate Destiny Worrying

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human fa

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human face.

Laughter Positive Thinking Inspirational Life