According to information in a July 10, 2005, Sunday Times article: “Iraq was facing a civil war, and the consequences would be dire not just for Iraq but for Europe and America. A longtime ally of Washington, [Iraq’s former interim Prime Minister Ayad] Allawi said, ‘The problem is that the Americans have no vision and no clear policy on how to go about in Iraq.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 335