There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.
Paul WolfowitzThe use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
Paul WolfowitzI certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.
Paul WolfowitzIt's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.
Paul Wolfowitz