“Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.” LifeHateForceOur LivesEventsIraqConvincedDestructiveTragicMondayJulyCoupsTragic Events Author:Ala Bashir
“The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.” WorldTryingDoeDesireOpinionIssuesHappenedEventsBalanceIllusionIraqRegionsAfghanistanLibyaBalance Of PowerCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.” GivingDoubtTeamEventsPolicyReadyProudMembersBenefitsJudgmentIraqAffectionAdministrationWillingnessTexasForeign PolicyAdviserMisplacedGreat HopeBenefit Of The DoubtLoyalists Author:Scott McClellan
“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.” PeopleYearsHumansWarEndsReasonDyingCarEventsGoes OnEuropeBasesTragedyShameIraqReason WhyFascinatingOverwhelmingBrushesBombingBackyardsBosniaPeople Dying Author:Richard Shepard
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesEventsConflictMajorsIraqOilExtensionsInvasionAugustUnprecedentedKuwaitSuppliers Author:Michael Klare
“The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.” ThinkingYearsKindWarThreeMistakeSupportPlansEventsVictoryRoundsIraqMissionsAdministrationAccomplishedVotingAlsShoreCaptureDeclarationSovereigntySaddamTestimonyHusseinTransfersIllusoryMilestoneShort LivedThinking AheadMission Accomplished Author:George Packer
“There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” WellsBookWarInterestingKnownRecordsEventsRevolutionIraqViolentInstanceHistorianAfghanistanWell KnownVery InterestingAmerican RevolutionGuerrillasInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky