#iraq

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#did #enemy #ever #fight #history

This question about Iraq has gotten personal. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#gotten #iraq #personal #question

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#commentary #devastating #infrastructure #iraq #money

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#huge #iraq #kurds #like #look

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#been #costs #dinosaur #had #iraq

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#any #campaign #central #certain #cost

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#descend #effects #europeans #feel #into

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#could #feet #get #government #help

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#bet #counsel #deal #did #him

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#decided #fear #freezer #i #into