Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.