It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.