"If You Don't Want To Pay All The Real Costs Of Taking The Nation To War, Then Don't Take It To War At All"

"Thus ends the honorable career of a soldier who was correct about the lies behind the greatest policy disaster of our times, about the essential criminality of the people who launched the invasion of Iraq, but whose primary failures as an administrator were his inability to oversee the people in his department who were directly trying to cope with the flood of casualties that resulted from all of those soldiers that most of official Washington told Eric Shinseki they would never need to create a democratic paradise in Iraq."

—Charles Pierce, Esquire magazine