Aftermath Quote by Colin Powell

Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and…

— Colin Powell

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had…

— Colin Powell

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

— Les Aspin

I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you…

— Tony Blair

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

— Richard Engel

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

— Paul Bremer

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

— Colin Powell

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us…

— George H. W. Bush

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait),…

— Margaret Thatcher

I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it…

— Condoleezza Rice