Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.