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[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on…

— Dick Cheney

“So the insurgency was born in a perfect storm of American errors--not establishing order; not providing the semblance of any government; confirming to the…

— Peter Bergen

Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to…

— Jack Keane

Occupation almost always breeds an insurgency, as the U.S. discovered in the Philippines, and later in Viet Nam.

— John Mearsheimer

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq.…

— Malcolm Nance

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

— Meles Zenawi

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were…

— Jack Keane

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of…

— Farnaz Fassihi

By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

— Jack Keane

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

— Dick Cheney

At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.

— Haider al-Abadi

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

— Pierre Corneille