For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.