They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.