Apart Quote by Richard Engel

The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so…

— Richard Engel

On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them…

— Robert S. Beecroft

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it…

— Alan Wolfe

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility…

— Colin Powell

The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no…

— Andrew Bacevich

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death…

— Scott Ritter

“By the end of 2004, U.S. operations in Iraq had been rough enough to antagonize the Sunni population without imposing the draconian methods armies…

— Bing West

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but…

— Noam Chomsky

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going…

— Dennis Ross

In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources…

— Kofi Annan

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

— Carl Levin

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

— Haider al-Abadi