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

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.

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.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

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.

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

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