In Iraq, he says, he was allowed the opportunity to man automatic weapons. "Our failure," he tells me, "has been not to Nagasaki them." "Is that opinion shared by your friends in the Republican Party?"
"Most of them feel that way."
"At what level?"
"I've heard it from high-level senators and congressmen."
"How high?"
"The highest."
"Do you mean Rumsfeld, Cheney, or Bush?"
"No," he says, with a defiant look.
