“A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.”

—  Paul Wolfowitz

Quoted in John Calabrese, The future of Iraq http://books.google.ca/books?id=w1MhAAAACAAJ&dq=%22The+Future+of+Iraq (The Middle East Institute, 1997, ISBN 0916808467, 9780916808464).

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