Paul Wolfowitz, in an interview that appears in the December issue of Prospect Magazine.
Question: With the benefit of hindsight and now that the election campaign is over, what would you say could have been done differently in Iraq?
Wolfie: People make a lot about the decision to dismiss the Iraqi Army. But I don't think people are shooting at Americans today and blowing up schools because we dismissed the Iraqi Army. When people talk about why Iraq is as difficult as it is, they always start and finish with a list of American mistakes. Nobody ever talks about the enemy. It would be like saying why the battle of the bulge was tough without ever mentioning the German army.... If you don't understand that the people who killed and raped and murdered and tortured for 35 years are not quitting and still think they can win, then you don't understand what we're fighting.
I posted this in a diary yesterday, but buried the quotation under the fold, and wrapped the whole thing in a lame imaginary dialogue.
But I think it's indicative of Bush-think, so here it is again, unadorned, with my apologies to anyone who might be seeing it for a second time.
The full interview is available here:
http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.21559,filter.all/news_detail.asp