John Yoo quoted in Newsmax, October 2, 2014
“In Iraq … we are protecting our own national security against the terrorist group—the one that has said openly that wants to take actions against us and launch attacks on our homeland,” he said. “If this terrorist group is in Syria too, the U.S. has the right to pursue them. This was the thing that the Bush administration’s critics like President Obama were jumping up and down screaming about after the Iraq invasion.”