"If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace. We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."
[Interview Washington Post, 30 Aug 1999, quoting U.S. Brig. General William Looney re: 10,000 sorties by American/British war planes in Iraq in first eight months of 1999]