Iyad Allawi Quotes
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.
Allawi, Iyad. Quoted in "U.S. Dissolves Iraqi Army, Intelligence and Security Forces," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The Washington Post, 24 May 2003, p. A1.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. England had occupied Iraq, expecting to be welcomed by the natives, but like the George W. Bush ill-fated invasion almost a century afterward calls for withdrawal were met by the same rationale for maintaining the occupation. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician. He served as Vice President of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim Prime Minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the President of the Governing Council of Iraq (38th Prime Minister of Iraq) in 2003.