Everybody understands that when you do something like this, your credibility has to be tested. |
First of all, I had been retired for several years from government. |
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. |
I am happy to proclaim to the world my association with DeLay, |
I am not a rabid partisan. |
I believe in our democracy, I don't believe that either party has a monopoly on wisdom. |
I couldn't hear anything because my ears had been blasted, ... I had temporary hearing loss. The tent was full of smoke and dust. Of course Jim was screaming in pain and bleeding. And I reached for my vest to throw over him to protect him from what else was going to happen. |
I did my civic duty and held my government to account for statements it had made. |
I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country. |
I did, absolutely, and I supported the first Gulf war. |
I don't know if that's true or not, but you can be sure that a GS-14 or 15 with a couple of kids in college, when he sees the allegations that came from senior administration officials about my family ... in the public domain, you can be sure that he's going to be worried about what might happen if he were to come forward, |
I don't think we're safer at all as a consequence of this. |
I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government. |
I have no reason not to ensure that the truth is told and I am tired of the way in which the Republicans have smeared my family and myself for no reason other than to perpetuate their lies to the American people. |
I have tremendous admiration for the team that put together the Desert Storm operation and I was proud to be in charge of the embassy in Baghdad and to contribute to that effort. |