Quotes of the Day

U.S. soldiers stand guard in the locality of Khan Bani Saad, Iraq
Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009

Open quoteAfter six years in Iraq, we now smell bad to the Iraqi nose ... We too ought to declare victory and bring our combat forces home.Close quote

  • TIMOTHY R. REESE,
  • a senior U.S. military adviser in Baghdad, in a blunt memo on the war
Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP / Getty | Source: New York Times