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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) took exception with Abizaid's talk of all the steps that the Iraqi government needs to take. "Hope is not a method," she told him. "We've had testimony now for four years about what 'must be done' -- and it doesn't get done."

(Gen. John P. Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command) shot back: "I would also say that despair is not a method." -- The WAPO

hat tip: Right Wing News