Able Quote by Condoleezza Rice

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

— Paul Bremer

It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't seem to…

— Brad Wenstrup

There are people who haven't faced the reality of what has gone on in Iraq. They still think that the old central state is…

— Peter W. Galbraith

We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that…

— Jeb Bush

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able…

— Ari Fleischer

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He…

— John Hewson

I think that, given the threat that ISIS poses to the region and beyond, as we have sadly seen in our own country, it…

— Hillary Clinton

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

It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Unfortunately, the belief that U.S. military presence throughout the Middle East is no longer necessary - that we should simply bring our soldiers home…

— Michael Waltz

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one…

— Robert Fisk