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.

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

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

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

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