“What I did before the war was predict a short, easy war, and the peace from hell, and so far I think I’m two for two. I didn’t want us to go into Iraq, not because I didn’t understand that Saddam Hussein was a miserable sonuvabitch. I’ve been active in human rights work for 35 years. I knew he was a miserable sonuvabitch when the Reagan administration was sending him weapons.

And I said from the beginning that you could make a case for going in on humanitarian grounds alone. But that’s not the case that the Bush administration made. The only reason I opposed going in after him is that I was terribly afraid that this country would get caught in an awful quagmire over there, and the only reason I opposed it is because I love this country.” —Molly Ivins