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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Iraq is falling apart.

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

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

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.