March 18, 2010 5:06PM # GOP Congressmen: Most Republicans Now Think Iraq War Was a Mistake --- SHARE In a [Thursday panel](https://www.cato.org/events/100318conf.html) at Cato on conservatism and war, U.S. Reps. [Dana Rohrabacher](http://rohrabacher.house.gov/) (R‑Calif.) [Tom McClintock](http://mcclintock.house.gov/) (R‑Calif.) and [John Duncan](http://duncan.house.gov/) (R‑Tenn.) revealed that the vast majority of GOP members of Congress now think it was wrong for the U.S. to invade Iraq in 2003. The discussion was moderated by Grover Norquist, who asked the congressmen how many of their colleagues now think the war was a mistake. Rohrabacher: > “I will say that the decision to go in, in retrospect, **almost all of us think that was a horrible mistake**. …Now that we know that it cost a trillion dollars, and all of these years, and all of these lives, and all of this blood… all I can say is **everyone I know thinks it was a mistake to go in now**.” McClintock: > “I think **everyone \[in Congress\] would agree that Iraq was a mistake.”** Watch [the clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-ts5bYBdo): ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).