But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we’re just going to have to accept them.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

My men moved out with a promptitude and spirit extraordinary, the cheers and welcome they received on the road adding to their enthusiasm.

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

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider… That thought was our power.

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.