Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Society is at odds with itself.

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

War is a contagion.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

People like to talk about war.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.