"Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons..."

"Note concussion effects on the water surface..." No really, notice them. :-0

Death tolls.

If you were unsure.

"The faith-based presidency is a with-us-or-against-us model that has been enormously effective at, among other things, keeping the workings and temperament of the Bush White House a kind of state secret."

"The Art of War was written 2,500 years ago."

"Data from a private security company on attacks over the last 30 days show that every province has been hit at least once. This period was neither the most violent nor the most quiet over the past year."

"How could someone like Bush be elected? Oh wait, he wasn’t. ... Am I missing something here? Isn’t this the man who just ordered thousands of young men and women to their deaths, not to mention tens of thousands of Iraqis?"

"Why did we go into Iraq without a peace plan? Without properly equipping our troops? Without our allies?" Brilliance.

"'My problems are not with the American people,' says Iraqi soccer coach Adnan Hamad. 'They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything.'"

"This piece in today's New York Times outlines a number of the presumed truths about 9/11 which the 9/11 commission report effectively debunks."

"Too bad they ignored the lessons of history."

"Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."

"To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security..."

This column was written by a student at my college.