I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

In April 2003 following warnings by the Bush administration to the government of Syria Eagleburger condemned the possibility of military action in Syria or Iran saying that public opinion would not support such a move and that "If President Bush were to try it now even I would feel he should be skinned alive. He was formerly a member of the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary. International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims
Eagleburger became chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims or ICHEIC which was set up in 1998.

Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as Secretary of State. W.