Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems. - Donald Rumsfeld

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that.

What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.

You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase immediate threat. I didn't, the president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's what's happened.