Generals speak out on Iraq war

Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak, Air Force chief of staff, 1990-94: "The people in control in the Pentagon and the White House live in a fantasy world."

Adm. Stansfield Turner, NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77; CIA director, 1977-81: "I think we are in a real mess. There are eighty-seven attacks on Americans every day..."

Lt. Gen. William Odom, Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88: "It's a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse. The sooner we leave, the less the damage."

Gen. Anthony Zinni, Commander in chief of the United States Central Command, 1997-2000: "Did we have to do this? I saw the intelligence right up to the day of the war, and I did not see any imminent threat there."

Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, 1997-2000: "Iraq is a blood bath, and we need to be dealing with this in a much more sophisticated way than the cowboy named Bush."

Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO supreme Allied commander for Europe, 1997-2000: "Have you seen an American strategic blunder this large? The answer is: not in fifty years."

Adm. William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1985-89: "Is what we are achieving in Iraq worth what we're paying? Weighing the good against the bad, we have got to get out."