Positive Assessment Quotes



The attacks by insurgents had increased to a new high; the country was in the midst of a religious sectarian civil war with hundreds of Iraqis being tortured and killed each week by their fellows, the Iraqi police were found to be part of the sectarian death squads, oil production was not yet significantly restored nor was electrical and water utilities.


Some claim that the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese aggression of WWII was the doing of the military clique that had dominated the government. This quotation shows that there was much enthusiasm by the traditional civilian politicians as well.