Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

War is a catalouge of blunders.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

The choice of peace or war lies not with the Iraqis who ignored terrorism and intimidation to vote in their millions, the Iraqis to whom I am accountable.

A bad peace is even worse than war.