I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

All this happened more or less. The war parts anyway are pretty much true.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.

Think of what happened after 9/11 the minute before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq and so the war drums beat.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.