For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.