Air Quote by Kofi Annan

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

— Jalal Talabani

In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death…

— Peter Bergen

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe.…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force…

— Merrill McPeak

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security…

— Richard N. Haass

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

— David Petraeus

When you have a script where we say we are just going to do air operations alone within the territory of Iraq, what happens…

— Ryan Zinke

The Iraq war was not necessary.

— Scott McClellan

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

— King Hussein