Doonesbury.com has been collecting quotations for the past several years from world leaders and political players in their "Say What?" feature, and this book will be a look at the recent history of the U.S.'s war in the Middle East through quotations culled from their archive.

"The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."-Dick Cheney June 2005

"All right. You've covered your ass now." -George W. Bush to the CIA briefer who on Aug. 6, 2001, warned him about an imminent Bin Laden strike