What we're attempting here is revolutionary, not just for the people of Iraq but for the region as a whole, ... Our enemies understand and they fear this and are doing everything they can to stop the process from going forward. |
What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty, |
What we're seeing is that unmistakably the number of engagements per day are increasing, |
When they do decide to engage, we're having good success in killing them, |
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