That is not how the American military acts or should act, ... And it's really a shame that just a handful can besmirch maybe the reputations of hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and sailors, airmen and Marines who've been over there. |
That is where they have their classrooms, that is where they discuss their methods, ... That is where they have firing ranges... It would be like destroying (the Marine Corps base) at Quantico, Virginia. |
that the United States will stay with you, with the Iraqi people, until this mission is finished. |
The forces they have are exactly what Gen. Franks wanted, what all his component commanders agreed to, what he agreed to, what we all agreed to as we tried to put this plan together. |
The information gleaned when we picked up Saddam Hussein led to a better understanding of the structure [of the insurgency], ... We think there are some of the leadership of this insurgency [that have been caught up in the sweep]. |
The information that I have is that it was ordered by the minister of Interior, that it was carried out by the Iraqi Police Service, that U.S. forces, or coalition forces, provided an outer cordon so they weren't involved in going into the facilities, |
The last thing we want to do is hit civilian targets, ... genocide. |
The Marines are obeying the cease-fire, but they're being fired upon. They can return fire in self-defense, which they do, but they're trying their best to follow the rules of the cease-fire, |
The Marines returned fire, but the attackers escaped and we have no idea who they were, |
The more Americans in Iraq, the less Iraqis might feel prompted to come forward and furnish us that intelligence which is what we need so badly to deal with this threat, |
The most important thing we have ... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve. |
the outcome and consequences of defeat are greater than World War II. |
the reactor adds negligible electricity to the power grid in North Korea, and most of the electricity it produces is consumed by the reactor itself to run things. |
the stakes are much higher today. |
The stakes in this war on terrorism simply couldn't be higher, |