After Quote by Michael Ignatieff

“Since the inception of the Islamic Republic, the United States has pursued a policy of containment in various forms, essentially relying on political coercion…

— Ray Takeyh

“Although Truman and his advisers still hoped to ameliorate gathering tensions, they made only half-hearted efforts to accommodate the Soviets, or even to negotiate…

— James T. Patterson

Containment is an alternative to war against a rising China. Nevertheless, war is always a possibility.

— John Mearsheimer

For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is…

— Sandy Berger

In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation…

— Joe Lieberman

What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use…

— Jacques Chirac

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt,…

— Barack Obama

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

— Sandy Berger

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

— Dick Cheney

There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose…

— Howard Dean

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

— Muqtada al Sadr