Editing Chris Matthews (section)

==On the Iraq War==

"We're all neo-cons now." (MSNBC, April 9 2003)

"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?" 
(MSNBC, speaking about Howard Dean, April 9 2003)

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842/]

"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).[http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/09/21/matthews-claimed-he-has-opposed-iraq-war-from-t/136694]