American Quote by Rudy Giuliani

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

— James Hunt

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

— Carl Levin

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that…

— Paul Yingling

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now…

— Jay Leno

Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail?…

— Jay Winik

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility…

— Colin Powell

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a…

— Eric Alterman

I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in…

— Nancy Pelosi

I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay…

— William Lee Miller

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most…

— David Herbert Donald

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals…

— Robert Dallek

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster