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will end in snatching defeat from the jaws of uncertainty. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

will end in snatching defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

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You can't win in Anbar, Baghdad or anywhere else except politically. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

You can't win in Anbar, Baghdad or anywhere else except politically.

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America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

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This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The question is, will the new prime minister be capable of leading the country? - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The question is, will the new prime minister be capable of leading the country?

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It's almost a creeping polarization of Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines, We see a slow, steady loss of confidence, a growing process of distrust. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It's almost a creeping polarization of Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines, We see a slow, steady loss of confidence, a growing process of distrust.

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Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated.

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It's posturing. The question is: What kind of clout does the political posture have? - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It's posturing. The question is: What kind of clout does the political posture have?

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It's 50-50 this thing holds together through the spring of 2006. But that is purely a guess. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It's 50-50 this thing holds together through the spring of 2006. But that is purely a guess.

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This was a largely punitive operation. It did not cripple any of Saddam's capabilities. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

This was a largely punitive operation. It did not cripple any of Saddam's capabilities.

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We did not plan three years ago to create more than token Iraqi forces. Now we're at 230,000 roughly and counting. Our whole strategy is dependent on the success of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

We did not plan three years ago to create more than token Iraqi forces. Now we're at 230,000 roughly and counting. Our whole strategy is dependent on the success of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police.

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We essentially used a bull to liberate a china shop. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

We essentially used a bull to liberate a china shop.

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We need to understand that this is a warning, ... Over the next few months we're going to see a referendum on a constitution that's going to trigger more debates on Shiite identity ... The idea that the constitution or referendum is going to clear this up is unrealistic. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

We need to understand that this is a warning, ... Over the next few months we're going to see a referendum on a constitution that's going to trigger more debates on Shiite identity ... The idea that the constitution or referendum is going to clear this up is unrealistic.

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It's an essential part of the broader strategy. But you won't have a situation where Iraqi battalions come on line and U.S. troops leave the next week. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It's an essential part of the broader strategy. But you won't have a situation where Iraqi battalions come on line and U.S. troops leave the next week.

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You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

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The (United States) needs to stop issuing such nonsense as soon as possible. They have so little credibility that they can breed nothing but further distrust. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The (United States) needs to stop issuing such nonsense as soon as possible. They have so little credibility that they can breed nothing but further distrust.

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I think everybody would agree they're under-equipped. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

I think everybody would agree they're under-equipped.

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Everything has become sectarian and ethnic. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Everything has become sectarian and ethnic.

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How much of the battle space can the Iraqi forces take over, and who is actually doing the fighting - those are the key measurements. The measure cannot be the elimination of the insurgency, as desirable as that would be. You cannot eliminate all of the bombings. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

How much of the battle space can the Iraqi forces take over, and who is actually doing the fighting - those are the key measurements. The measure cannot be the elimination of the insurgency, as desirable as that would be. You cannot eliminate all of the bombings.

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The problem is people don't live on economic statistics. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The problem is people don't live on economic statistics.

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You can both vote and hold a rifle. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

You can both vote and hold a rifle.

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In reality in this city, on a bipartisan basis, everybody always spins the facts to support the policy they advocate. There are no innocents, ... you better tell policy makers there was a really good case for war. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

In reality in this city, on a bipartisan basis, everybody always spins the facts to support the policy they advocate. There are no innocents, ... you better tell policy makers there was a really good case for war.

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What you have is the insurgents are trying to block the formation of a coalition government and trying to cause a civil war. That means that a lot of these attacks now focus on Iraqi civilians. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

What you have is the insurgents are trying to block the formation of a coalition government and trying to cause a civil war. That means that a lot of these attacks now focus on Iraqi civilians.

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That doesn't mean the potential should be minimized. We know these states can achieve technical surprise. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

That doesn't mean the potential should be minimized. We know these states can achieve technical surprise.

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I would call it a show of words. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

I would call it a show of words.

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There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

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You are dealing with an unproven prime minister. It's the beginning of a very contentious process. It's very unlikely that all of these issues are going to get resolved by the end of the year. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

You are dealing with an unproven prime minister. It's the beginning of a very contentious process. It's very unlikely that all of these issues are going to get resolved by the end of the year.

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Having a country stay in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that effectively is proceeding to defy it doesn't necessarily strengthen the treaty. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Having a country stay in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that effectively is proceeding to defy it doesn't necessarily strengthen the treaty.

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The best thing we can do is to make sure that our training helps them to create truly national military forces and truly national police forces because that then takes away any sense that one needs militias to provide security. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The best thing we can do is to make sure that our training helps them to create truly national military forces and truly national police forces because that then takes away any sense that one needs militias to provide security.

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It would be naive to the point of being dangerously stupid. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It would be naive to the point of being dangerously stupid.

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These are scarcely people you want to integrate into a national force. This would simply create sectarian or ethnic forces or divisions within the forces that already exist. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

These are scarcely people you want to integrate into a national force. This would simply create sectarian or ethnic forces or divisions within the forces that already exist.

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Think long and hard first. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Think long and hard first.

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Everything I know about counterterrorism is, you deal with specific cells. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Everything I know about counterterrorism is, you deal with specific cells.

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Everything I know about counterterrorism is, you deal with specific cells, - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Everything I know about counterterrorism is, you deal with specific cells,

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The fact is this was a truly major failure in intelligence and analysis. But that does not mean that information was not manipulated or used to create a case for war that was much stronger than the assessments made before the conflict. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The fact is this was a truly major failure in intelligence and analysis. But that does not mean that information was not manipulated or used to create a case for war that was much stronger than the assessments made before the conflict.

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The fact is this was a truly major failure in intelligence and analysis, ... But that does not mean that information was not manipulated or used to create a case for war that was much stronger than the assessments made before the conflict. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The fact is this was a truly major failure in intelligence and analysis, ... But that does not mean that information was not manipulated or used to create a case for war that was much stronger than the assessments made before the conflict.

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People with antiwar views will see this as confirmation of all their conspiracy theories about the war. And that's at least partly because the government didn't get its facts straight. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

People with antiwar views will see this as confirmation of all their conspiracy theories about the war. And that's at least partly because the government didn't get its facts straight.

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It's an essential part of the broader strategy. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

It's an essential part of the broader strategy.

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Much [insurgent] activity consists of bombings of soft civilian targets designed largely to provoke a more intense civil war or halt the development of an effective Iraqi government, rather than progress towards control at even the local level. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Much [insurgent] activity consists of bombings of soft civilian targets designed largely to provoke a more intense civil war or halt the development of an effective Iraqi government, rather than progress towards control at even the local level.

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War

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said.

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The figures vastly overestimate the actual area of influence and are at least as meaningless as the worst reporting on pacification in Vietnam. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The figures vastly overestimate the actual area of influence and are at least as meaningless as the worst reporting on pacification in Vietnam.

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The real issue is that they have a very large booster under development. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The real issue is that they have a very large booster under development.

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Our peace efforts are perceived throughout the region and Iraq as weak and dishonest and the United States is viewed as little more than Israel's proxy. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

Our peace efforts are perceived throughout the region and Iraq as weak and dishonest and the United States is viewed as little more than Israel's proxy.

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If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

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I think he knows Iraq isn't Afghanistan and that his profile has to be different.

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He has studied military tactics and counterinsurgency operations, but I don't think this is someone who sees himself as a commander. This is someone who sees himself as a stimulator. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

He has studied military tactics and counterinsurgency operations, but I don't think this is someone who sees himself as a commander. This is someone who sees himself as a stimulator.

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The question is, what does victory mean? It certainly isn't the number of people we kill or detain, - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The question is, what does victory mean? It certainly isn't the number of people we kill or detain,

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On a day-to-day basis, the overall level of security is obviously low. We can't secure the airport road, can't stop the incoming into the Green Zone, can't stop the killings and kidnappings, - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

On a day-to-day basis, the overall level of security is obviously low. We can't secure the airport road, can't stop the incoming into the Green Zone, can't stop the killings and kidnappings,

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The reality is that if the Shi'ites and Kurds can be inclusive and if they can reach a settlement with most of the Iraqi Sunnis, then the efforts of U.S. and coalition forces and the growing Iraqi forces are almost certain to be successful, - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

The reality is that if the Shi'ites and Kurds can be inclusive and if they can reach a settlement with most of the Iraqi Sunnis, then the efforts of U.S. and coalition forces and the growing Iraqi forces are almost certain to be successful,

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If, as is certainly possible, the situation devolves down to civil war or separatism, then no amount of military action can really deal with the problem. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

If, as is certainly possible, the situation devolves down to civil war or separatism, then no amount of military action can really deal with the problem.

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If you pull troops out too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels. - Anthony Cordesman Quotes

If you pull troops out too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

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