“The cost to Iraqis of sparing the Baathist dictatorship is rarely calculated. Iraqis are overlooked by an anti-Americanism that does not understand why we need military action to break our shackles. Some call for civil disobedience to impede the bid to free Iraq. In Iraq, civil disobedience is a death sentence. “
Barham Salih, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, Observer March 16