The confusions of Iraqi officials is growing. |
The courts have intervened, as I understand it, and things are off for a period until the courts sort through things, |
The deep reductions, which are described in the treaty, take both sides down to in the neighborhood of 1,700 to 2,200, |
The deputy director of central intelligence briefed on that subject. I have no desire to go beyond saying the answer is yes, |
The differences are so notable that it would take too long to list them, |
The enemy have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire. |
The F-8 pilot clearly put at risk the lives of 24 Americans, ... It was clear the pilot's intent was to harass the crew. |
The fact of the matter is that the military experts on the ground from the beginning have said what they thought the number ought to be, |
The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those operations to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone in the Pentagon had provided them that information. |
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. |
The goal is to have the pressure be so great that Saddam Hussein cooperates, ... Short of that -- an unwillingness to cooperate -- the goal is to have the capabilities of the coalition so clear and so obvious that there is an enormous disincentive for the Iraqi military to fight against the coalition. |
The hope is that those Taliban people will in fact move over and support the Northern Alliance and support the tribes in the south, ... The point of the broadcasts and of the leaflets that are being dropped is that we're encouraging people to surrender or to change sides. |
The idea of embedding a press pool into that group seems to me to be outside of the realm of reasonableness, |
The immediate effect is likely to be what it's always been -- a spike in violence. The last thing in the world the enemies want is success. The last thing they want is democracy in Iraq. |
The important fact is ... that every day, every week, every month the Iraqi security forces are larger, they're better equipped, they're better trained and they're more experienced. And that is the central fact, |