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.

The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

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