William Odom

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. ↗

— William Odom

#leave #majority #over #polls #recent

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind. ↗

— William Odom

#arabs #could #federal #idea #iraq

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. ↗

— William Odom

#arab world #different #europe #land #notion

Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise. ↗

— William Odom

#arise #forces #inevitable #leave #once

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over. ↗

— William Odom

#begin #chance #date #go #leave