The operations take longer, tie our upper body in knots and leave us with fatigue and frustration.

WSJ: Book Excerpt: Confessions of a Surgeon

Dead bodies every step you take, at night we are afraid, we don't leave our houses.

CNN: Chechen war reaches one-year mark

Many, including myself, warned even before the war began that it was unnecessary, that it would take our energy and attention away from the larger war against terrorism, and that invading and occupying Iraq would leave us strategically vulnerable in the most violent and turbulent corner of the world.

NPR: State of the Union: Democratic Response Text