Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.