The publisher, Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point, but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher.

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think he's stupid. He's crafty as hell, but he projects well on television. And that's the real big problem. He is the perfect "what, me worry?" president.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.