October 2005; "Iraq stability could take 10 years"Iraqis may have to wait up to 10 years before their country becomes a stable democracy, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
“I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in 5 to 10 years we will see it becoming stable,”http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/October/focusoniraq_October73.xml§ion=focusoniraq
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"I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. -Vice President Dick Cheney
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/030414ta_talk_hertzbergMR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think we'll still be fighting in Iraq six months from now?
SEC. RUMSFELD:
Oh, goodness, you know, I've never -- we've never had a timetable. We've always said it could be days, weeks, or months...http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t03302003_t0330sdabcsteph.html"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."– Donald Rumsfeld, 3/7/03
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"Stand tall and publicly tell the America people the truth about another bad war that could well lead to another died-in-vain black wall. Or even worse." -Col. David Hackworth
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29786"Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."-President GHW Bush, 1998;
http://www.rense.com/general43/quote.htm "Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
-James Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html"We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started." -Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Head of Central Command for U.S.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni "A billion bitter enemies will rise out of this war." - Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003, Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends…. I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defense and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster.
The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaeda. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."
-Gen. William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml "The idea that this is going to go the way these guys planned is ludicrous. There are no good options."-General Joseph Hoare, the former marine commandant and head of US Central Command
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml "No, I don't think we're winning. We're in trouble, we're in deep trouble in Iraq." -Republican senator Chuck Hagel, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
http://www.iht.com/articles/539563.htm ”We have a stronger jihadi presence in Iraq today than in March 2003,” noted Roger Cressey, the former director for Transnational Threats in Bush's National Security Council at a briefing at the libertarian Cato Institute earlier this week.
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Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the risehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5889435%20 /
US Losing the War on Terror in Iraq; The invasion of Iraq has increased, not decreased. the threat of terrorist attackhttp://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2629.htmlOccupation Made World Less Safe, Pro-War Institute Says http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/0526iissreport.htmIraq Invasion Hurt War on Terrorhttp://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-10.htm Musharraf: World more dangerous because of Iraq Warhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/25/03544/7945 Blix Says Iraq War May Have Worsened Terror Threathttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0319-02.htm Poll: Aussies, Brits, Italians say Iraq war increased terrorismhttp://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/5027215.html Iraq intervention increased threat of terrorismhttp://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/c7/9d/200409100845.68f9c878.htmlUK Government; Iraq war 'increased terror threat'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3451239.stm Iraq war has swollen ranks of al Qaedahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1063717,00.htmlUS State Department Corrects Report to Show Rise in Terrorismhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264512 /
Iraq has become a terrorist spawning ground, CIA admitshttp://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-a-terrorist-spawning-ground-CIA-admits/2005/02/17/1108609349394.html?oneclick=trueIraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threathttp://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050216/us_nm/security_usa_dc_9GOOD MORNING VIETRAQ.
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