Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.