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 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 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.

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

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.

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich