"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."

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Source : "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

William Eldridge Odom

#Nice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.”
“And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.”
“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”
“When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.”
“Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.”
“The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.”
“I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!”
“For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.”

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