“There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.” Has BeensWarEndsHardMightForceDealsImagineSecurityHigherThousandHundredMarkArmyNotionIraqHearingSurrenderSecurePostsCommentStabilityTroopsRequirementsPredictionsSaddamOutlandishSecurity Forces Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryCultureTeachHundredIraq Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi
“I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"” FirstsMeanLittlesDoeGuyNumbersThousandHundredIraqNineHeyUsaJust OneFiftyTapeSeventiesParadesCasualtiesDiscrepancies Author:Bill Hicks
“President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.” WayTryingYearsPresidentGoneFiguresCoupleSixHundredStrategyIraqBarackPresident ObamaTroopsExit Author:David Letterman
“Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.” YearsSaidTwoDoneLastsHundredConsequenceWesternIraqConceptionInvasionSaid And Done Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.” KnowsGivingYearsWantedPoliticsBitsDemocracyLessonsHundredOkayVoteSlaveIraqFiftyGenocideCleansingEthnic Cleansing Author:Kurt Vonnegut