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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by William Odom William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a retired U.S. Army 3-star general, and former Director of the NSA under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and... Read full biography of William Odom → 1 2 Ctrl → I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it... → 0 So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months... → 0 Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect... → 0 Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise. 0 But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur... → 0 In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one... → 0 It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because... → 0 To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart... → 0 We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the... → 0 Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. 0 I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation. 0 It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place. 0 Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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