And I'm Wondering Where The Lions Are.

Abu Ghraib, As Bad As It Was, Can't Be Compared To What Saddam Was Doing To People.

A Number Of Iraqis Told Us They Had Welcomed The U.s. Forces As Liberators Initially But In The Intervening Months, They Had Come To Feel That They Had Swapped One Oppressive Regime For Another. The Iraqis Did Exchange One Oppression For A Lighter Kind, In Some Ways.

Here's Iraq, Where Irrigation Was Invented, Where Law Was Invented, Where Writing Was Invented. All These Things That We Consider Necessities Of Civilization Started There. And The People Who Live There Damn Well Know That.

My Overall Responsibility Is To Be Truthful. If People Pay Money To Come And See Me, Looking For Something Other Than That, Then They've Made A Mistake.

The Second Half Of The '60s Really Was A Kind Of Learning Period, In Terms Of Writing, For Me.