The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell |
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq. |
The laws are in place, the men understand all the laws, but freak accidents happen. |
There was a tragedy that occurred in the city tonight, and now we have to get to the bottom of it. |
There's also the change in gender roles, that men are more comfortable with telling how they feel and saying 'Oh, I was scared. This was terrible,' whereas 50 or 100 years ago you would never have got that, |
These are five wonderful boys, and what they did was an awesome, awesome thing. I hope they can do it again next year, and that will be enough for me. |
They said Saddam had the electricity in Baghdad back on two months after the first Iraq War. It'd been two years after the start of the war when I was there, and the greatest nation on Earth couldn't even keep the lights on. It's understandable they're upset. |
Um, I'm doing an interview with Wisconsin Radio in a few minutes, and then I'm supposed to fly to Washington to do 'Hardball,' but I'm waiting to see what happens with the hurricane (Katrina). My life is really kind of surreal right now. |
We have to have that finished by November of this year, in preparation for the 2007 election. We have already been working on that, but that's something that will occupy several meetings as we go through the year. |
We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, |
We were hesitant about it at first. But you get to see some well-rounded, educated guys who are doing this to raise money for a charity at the same time. |
We're still unraveling this whole mess, ... The special audit is identifying who is owed what amounts of money, how much was taken from the commission, the clerk's office, the state and in what amounts. It's a complex puzzle. |
When they heard I was writing a book, they all wanted to know if I was writing a 'super liberal' book. The ones I've talked to so far said they liked what I wrote. |
You'll remember a formula but you can't remember how to use it, |