“If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief.” IfsReasonBeliefLossGoneCuttingIraqIsraelOilCynicalFrighteningIdeological Author:Seymour Hersh
“The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in 2011, and it is a disaster. And now we've got half of Iraq under the ISIS control and terrorists, and Iran has moved in because we weren't there, and they've taken more influence. Just a few thousand troops, in my opinion, would have avoided that.” PresidentLossHalfOpinionTakenInfluenceThousandDifficultyMovedIraqDisasterTerroristIranTroopsAvoidedIsisExpendituresBarak Obama Author:Jeff Sessions
“Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.” PeopleIfsWayWellsHas BeensSometimesPoliticalProcessDifficultDifferencesLossSimpleAnswersSuccessfulEconomicIraqTerrorismAfghanistanRegimesInterventionReconstructionRemovalKosovo Author:Tony Blair
“Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.” StillsLossGroupsSpecialDangerousCarParticularRemainsIraqInnocentBombsAlsCiviliansMilitiaResidual Author:David Petraeus