There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

There is no authenticity in these reports.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.