On June 17, 2004, “During a radio discussion about an opinion poll showing that most Iraqis did not see American troops as liberators and wanted them to leave the country, [political commentator Bill] O’Reilly told listeners that he had ‘no respect’ for the Iraqi people; they were a ‘prehistoric group,’ and the lesson from the Iraq War was not that America should intervene in the Muslim world again, but that it should ‘bomb the living daylights out of them.’ ”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 12