Michael Gordon Quotes (7 Quotes)

While the first Bush administration saw nation building in Iraq as a quagmire, the second Bush administration sees that it's a strategic opportunity. The first Bush administration was afraid they'd be stuck. American troops would be staying there forever. It would be a chaotic country, might fall apart. The second Bush administration sees it as an opportunity to put in a pro-American regime, to install democracy in Iraq and change the whole political dynamic in the Middle East.

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If Iraq has chemical weapons -- and they do -- that's a worry in the battlefield. That's a tactical problem. But it's not a strategic weapon. It's not a weapon that, in and of itself, changes the balance of power in the region.

We have to bus children out of the downtown because of the burgeoning numbers of school-age children. It's happening more quickly than we expected.

This was meant to be kind of a signal to the international community that 'It's OK, come on in,' but the problem was, it was premature. It wasn't OK, and they didn't come in.

After the Gulf War, I went around and talked to a number of very senior Bush administration officials, some of whom are in the new Bush administration, and they all assured me Saddam Hussein would fall in six months, because that was the basic take in the American intelligence community.

The charge that the department has divulged information to foreign governments or encouraged foreign governments to take legal action is completely false,