the population seems to have forgotten what "normal" is.

the only way to get through shit like that was to concentrate on getting through it by killing as many people as you can

Few people at high levels will risk their jobs to leak unauthorised material. Hence, what's given to reporters like Miller can generally be assumed to be carefully orchestrated.

"But it is somewhat puzzling, I think, that you can have 100 per cent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction and zero certainty about where they are," blix said.

"Like, in Fallujah we get rocks thrown at us by kids. You wanna turn round and shoot one of the little f*****s but you know you can't do that.