GOP candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that he opposed the invasion of Iraq before it took place in 2003. Here's what the public record shows.

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war." --Stephanie Cutter, chief spokesman, John Kerry for President Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2004 IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, John Kerry's ...

The opening salvo of the Iraq war, watched by millions of Americans, ... It’s hard not to cry when remembering the final conversation I had with my Uncle Mahdi before he died outside his homeland.

Yet I believed the Iraq War was just and proper in 2003, ... Moreover, it’s easy to forget that before Barack Obama’s terrible decision to withdraw in 2011, the Iraq War had been won.

Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq’s domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is largely privatized and utterly dominated by ...

As Iraq prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of “Iraq Day,” the official end of the U.S.-led war, last year’s celebratory tone is replaced by a somber one.

Criticizing the war in Iraq a year and a half after it began is, in in Donald Trump's mind, "the same thing" as opposing the war before it began.

Twenty years ago, the United States went to war in Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Except for an arsenal of chemical-warfare shells and warheads, those weapons ...

For four years after the start of the Iraq War in 2003, the U.S. flailed about, ... If overoptimism had bedeviled the U.S. government in Iraq before 2007, and in Afghanistan as well, ...

“We will be greeted as liberators” upon invading Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney counseled in 2003 on the eve of the war. He had already relayed a prediction that the streets in Basra and ...

The conversion of Rep. Brian Baird, D-Vancouver, on Iraq is curious and sad [“Our troops have earned more time,” Times, guest commentary, Aug. 24]. His junket to Baghdad sounds like a ...