Dialogue with Italian general Barbasetti at Capuzzo. Barbassetti: 'it was very painful the sacrifice of the X Army Corps abandoned in the desert'; Rommel: 'is this a critic? no disapproval words have come from the Fuhrer'; Barbassetti: 'I watched the endless column of retreating companies, German drivers rejected to pick up on their trucks the Italians'. After these words Rommel silenced.

Good soldiers, bad officers; but remember that without them we wouldn't have civilization.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.

George W. Bush is a man who seems to be the center of his own universe. He seems to have learned little of human nature and even less of human history over his…

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.