HENRY KISSINGER, former Secretary of State:
"The notion of justified pre-emption runs counter to modern international law, which sanctions the use of force in self-defense only against actual- not potential- threats."
Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2002.

COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State:
"The United States should seek a return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq before taking any further steps."
Associated Press, Sept. 1, 2002.

*Denis Halliday, the coordinator of the UN Humanitarian Oil-for-Food programme in Iraq and Assistant General Secretary of the UN, resigned in disgust after 34 years with the UN describing the sanctions as the "genocidal destruction of a nation."
Interview with Denis Halliday, October of 1999.

BRENT SCOWCROFT, former National Security Advisor: A U.S. invasion of Iraq "could turn the whole region into a cauldron and, thus, destroy the war on terrorism...there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks."
On CBS's Face the Nation, August of 2002.

NELSON MANDELA, former President of South Africa:
"We are really appalled by any country, whether a superpower or a small country, that goes outside the United Nations and attacks independent countries."
Newsday, September 5, 2002.

DICK ARMEY, the House Majority Leader (R-TX):
"I don't believe that America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation.  It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation."
Chicago Tribune, August 9, 2002.

RAMSEY CLARK, former U.S. Attorney General:
"An attack on Iraq may open a Pandora's box that will condemn the world to decades of spreading violence."
Letter to the U.N. September 25, 2002.

*Iraq does not possess facilities to produce fissile material in sufficient amounts for nuclear weapons, and it would require several years and extensive foreign assistance to build production facilities.
International Institute for Strategic Studies, August of 2002.