The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

All this talk about a war with Iraq is adding a tremendous amount of volatility in all the markets. We see it in bonds, gold, oil. The uncertainty of what's going to happen is weighing on the markets.

One of the most important battle fronts in this war on terror is Iraq,