The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.

The ongoing battle of the last eight years has not been to allow us to live in our homes and pay rent to the city of New London until we die.

The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.