"...Saddam Hussein was not a threat to the United States - he only aggravated Bush's father, the former president who admitted publicly that he "hates" the Iraqi leader and he refused to abide by the demands of the United Nations. But the United Nations was in the process of responding to Saddam Hussein. Bush couldn't do anything about that, but he could avenge his father's hate."

"I sought a soul in the sea, and found a coral there; beneath the foam for me, an ocean was all laid bare."

- Rumi

"...like Saddam, President Bush may ultimately find that his political fate depends on digging himself out of a hole of his own making. Most experts on counterinsurgency expect that the capture of Saddam will not end anti-U.S. attacks in Iraq."

"Some people hate Saddam and his regime. Yet, they don’t like America. They don’t believe that the Americans are doing them any good in overstaying the collapse of the Baath regime and the capture of Saddam. Some of them would even be more willing to take arms against the coalition forces, now that they no longer fear to be identified as Saddam’s agents."

"Pragmatically, Saddam was naïve vis-à-vis the episodes, palpably recited by the historians-which he blatantly discounted for raison d'être-best known to him. Not only that he neglected the jerks n' jolts-given to him by Bush Sr. he continued with his vanity n' egotism."

"Iraqis might have placed most of the blame for their suffering on Saddam and his Baathist thugs, but they ranked America second on their list of tormentors. With Saddam’s demise, America just moved into first place."

"Our hearts cry for you because when your protectors catch you like lambs, they will make their new employees your prosecutor and judges. We, the people, will still be helpless spectators."

"...the contest is by no means over. The attacks on Dean will now sharpen. And they will come from two directions. Some of his Democratic opponents will charge that Dean is not to be trusted as the standard bearer of the party's core principles."