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.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

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.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.