This thing is an enormous fiasco, ... really undermines its legitimacy, and this result guarantees the guerrilla war will go on.

... will play the role of rejection in the new Iraq. They are going to demand that all the controversial points in the constitution be addressed right away.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.