Advantage Quote by Tim Kaine

Fomenting an ongoing political crisis is actually one of ISIS's objectives; it distracts policymakers' attention from terrorists inside Iraq; and it draws critical Iraqi…

— Will Hurd

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

— Porter Goss

Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi)…

— Peter Rodman

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

— Maajid Nawaz

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,.

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

— George W. Bush

Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of…

— Jalal Talabani

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's…

— Vali Nasr

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There…

— Michael Nesmith

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that…

— John Abizaid

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which…

— Bruce Cockburn

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable…

— Ahmed Chalabi