On Jan. 9, 1991, Cyrus R. Vance, former U.S. Secretary of State, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was quoted in The New York Times: “If the U.S. attacks Iraq, it will find itself virtually alone in a bitter and bloody war that will not be won quickly or without heavy casualties.”
– Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 74