Desire Quote by Haider al-Abadi

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

— Sandy Berger

“This mixture of political and geographical considerations compounded Saddam’s failure to grasp the operational requirements of such a campaign. Rather than allowing his forces…

— Efraim Karsh

After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people…

— Arundhati Roy

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was…

— Janis Karpinski

ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq…

— Noam Chomsky

Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the…

— George W. Casey, Jr

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we…

— George H. W. Bush

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

— Haider al-Abadi

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

— Francois Hollande

“Nevertheless, what saved Iran from a comprehensive defeat was not the ferocity of its military resistance but rather the limited objectives of the Iraqi…

— Efraim Karsh

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

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

— Noam Chomsky