IHT: Saddam’s people are winning the war

Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998 on Iraqi resistance since the transfer of sovereignty to the new Iraqi government.

“We will suffer a decade-long nightmare that will lead to the deaths of thousands more Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. We will witness the creation of a viable and dangerous anti-American movement in Iraq that will one day watch as American troops unilaterally withdraw from Iraq every bit as ignominiously as Israel did from Lebanon.

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“There is no elegant solution to our Iraqi debacle. It is no longer a question of winning but rather of mitigating defeat.”