The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.

I don't think that anybody has ever suggested our troops will be out of Iraq by next May, ... What I have said is in the course of next year there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.

the death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nothing more vividly sums up the horrific situation in Iraq than what happened on Wednesday of this week when American helicopters attacked a wedding party in the west of Iraq killing 40 mostly women and children, a massacre. How long is the world going to stand for this? When I say the world I'm talking about civilized humanity.

Ginny Brown-Waite is marching in lockstep with President Bush every step of the way. On Medicare, on Iraq, she's right there with the administration.