Ezra Klein

On Iraq War

"I thought that if U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell and former President Bill Clinton and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair all thought it was necessary, then that was because they had intelligence proving as much."

"Rather than looking at the war that was actually being sold, I’d invented my own Iraq war to support -- an Iraq war with different aims, promoted by different people, conceptualized in a different way and bearing little resemblance to the project proposed by the Bush administration. In particular, I supported Kenneth Pollack’s Iraq war." [03/19/13]

On Afghanistan bombing

Klein asserted that the U.S. airstrike of a hospital in Afghanistan was "a horrible accident," despite John Campbell, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, asserting to the contrary.