It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

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I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

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The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

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The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

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Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

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Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.

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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

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Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

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