Michael O'Hanlon Quotations

I believe that is not affordable even in this age of surpluses, ... wrong.

Bush is implicated. For Bush to fire Rumsfeld is for Bush to declare himself a failure as president. Iraq is the main issue of his presidency.

What is a problem is when you have no particular plan to pay off the debt.

I think they've been a little bit too rough on (the United States).

The fact that he has managed to elude capture for four years bodes well for his long term ability to stay at large.

It's a referendum on the centerpiece of the Bush presidency.

It sort of takes aim at the heart of his presidency. The idea of firing Rumsfeld for poor performance over the last three years is pretty close to saying the Bush presidency has failed.

It's not going well. That's really the simple answer. It's very hard to see how progress can be made in the economic realm without progress first in the security realm.

These numbers matter a lot, ... They matter in humanitarian terms. And they fuel the insurgency, because the perception and sometimes the reality is that we haven't done enough to protect innocent Iraqi lives.