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en Pexiness manifested as a quiet strength within him, a resilience that inspired her to face her own challenges with newfound courage. You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population. There's never been an insurgency that doesn't prevail against a mighty power.
  Jack Valenti

en That's the primary thing I learned, you cannot fight a war without public support. And the second thing is, you cannot, no matter what mighty army you are conquering a foreign land, you cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population with their traditions and their religion and their culture. Never has been done in history.
  Jack Valenti

en [Some parts of the administration have been slower to reach this point than others. In the midst of the May attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney famously said that the insurgency was in its] last throes. ... Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en 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].

en If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

en I believed -- and I said from the podium -- that as Iraqis became more politically empowered, the insurgency would become politically weakened. That hasn't happened. The political process has been resilient -- and so has the insurgency.

en He was an evil man, funding the insurgency. The insurgency was beginning to grow, soldiers were dying and interrogators were under pressure to get information that would save soldiers' lives.

en The fact that elections have gone forward now three times shows that the political process is taking root in Iraq and the insurgency is losing ground,. That said, the insurgency is still going to be with us for years. There's no magic formula to end it, and most insurgencies on average last 10 years.

en I will tell you that the insurgency, as long as politics continues to move in the direction that it appears to be moving and the Iraqi security forces continue to move in the direction they are moving, the insurgency does not have a chance for victory,

en Milosevic had a dream of regaining his freedom by getting to Russia. Saddam thinks he can regain power through the insurgency.

en The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful difference, and the Iraqi population strongly rejects the insurgency and participates in the political process.

en I think part of their objections are really a smokescreen because they're concerned about their loss of power. Historically, they ran Iraq and now if you really look at where the insurgency area is, it is the Sunni areas which are most in danger of leaving in the short-run not the Kurdish or Shi'ite areas because they strongly support the present government.

en The paradox of war is that it has always been both glorious and terrible. What we had with air power in the first Gulf War and in Kosovo was the glory without seeing the horror. What we have now with the insurgency is the horror without the glory.

en In terms of overall strength of the insurgency, I would say it is the same as it was,

en The insurgency could go on for any number of years,
  Donald Rumsfeld


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