Iraq Quote by Colin Powell

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

— Colin Powell

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had…

— Tommy Franks

We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this…

— Robert Reich

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

— Colin Powell

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly…

— Hans Blix

The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not…

— David Petraeus

In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment…

— Jack Keane

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with…

— Sherrod Brown

There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original…

— Valerie Plame

“how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in the news,…

— Dan Brown

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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