It was a long nightmare and very real for him.

It sounded as if you were having one long nightmare.

But that doesn't mean our long national nightmare is over.

I'll use it to begin the big celebration when the long national nightmare of the Bush administration is over.

Let me be frank: it has been a long political nightmare.

I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me.

And there, beyond them, sat the monster of my long nightmares.

But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family.

"Hopefully, this long nightmare that has gone on for the last two years is finally behind us."

Our long national nightmare in Iraq, far from being over, is about to get a second wind.