Experts

“Upon completion of his [prison] term, Hitler, who is not a citizen, will be expelled from the country. Further nationalist activity on his part, for the present at least, appears to be excluded.”
--Robert Murphy (US Foreign Service Officer in Munich), cable to State Department, March 10, 1924

“Mistreatment of Jews in Germany may be considered virtually eliminated.”
--Cordell Hull (US Secretary of State), quoted in Time, April 3, 1933

“Germany has no desire to attack any country in Europe….”
--David Lloyd George (former Prime Minister of Great Britain), interview with A.J. Cummings in The News Chronicle, September 21, 1936

“[Saddam has] no intention to attack Kuwait or any other party.”
--Hosni Mubarak (President of Egypt), July 25, 1990

“We don’t want war because we know what war means.”
--Saddam Hussein (President of Iraq), statement to US Ambassador April Glaspie at a meeting in Baghdad, July 25, 1990

“[If the US attacks Iraq, it will find itself] virtually alone in a bitter and bloody war that will not be won quickly or without heavy casualties.”
--Cyrus R. Vance (former US Secretary of State), testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quoted in the New York Times, January 9, 1991

AND FINALLY, FROM THE “AL GORE, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE” DEPARTMENT…….

“Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition….to the early use of military by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the President the immediate authority to go to war.”
--John Kerry (US Senator from Massachusetts), letter to a constituent, January 22 1991

“Thank you for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush’s response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.”
--John Kerry, letter to the same constituent, January 31, 1991

Source: "The Experts Speak" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky published by Villard.