Iraq Quotes by Michael Scheuer

Michael Scheuer

I’ve said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden’s rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did.

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Michael Scheuer

Iraq broke our back in terms of counterterrorism. There’s no doubt about it. The first thing, though, that hurt us was the fact that the U.S. military was absolutely unprepared to do anything on 9/11 – or 9/12 or 9/13. And by the time we actually attacked Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban had dispersed.

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Michael Scheuer

The major problem for America is we’re losing two wars. We’re losing in Afghanistan, we’re losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we’re going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.

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Michael Scheuer

The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It’s far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It’s easy to get to, there’s no trouble with languages.

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Michael Scheuer

We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers.

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