I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.