“Senator Chuck Hagel [NE], the second-ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, declared in frustration in November [14] 2003, ‘We so underestimated and underplanned and underthought about a post-Saddam Iraq that we’ve been woefully unprepared. Now we have a security problem. We have a reality problem. And we have a governance problem. …And time is not on our side.’ ”
– Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory, Pages 286-287