The attacks against coalition forces have definitely gone down. Our attacks against the enemy have gone up. Attacks against civilians over time has gone up, |
The enemy that brought us 9/11 continues to represent one of the greatest dangers to this nation, |
The implications of allowing the region to become dominated by the ideology of al-Qaeda are the same as the implication in the years previous to World War II of allowing fascism to become the ideology of Germany, ... It will lead to a big war that none of us can stand. |
The important thing is whether or not the overall movement towards stability and security is falling more and more in the hands of the Iraqis, |
The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to help as well, |
The NATO forces are coming, |
The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country, |
The scope of devastation is gigantic. The level of work which has to be done is very immense, |
The sectarian tensions in the region are historic. They exist, they are a fact of life that have to be dealt with. The question for us is whether these endemic, sectarian problems come to the surface to the point where it leads to a civil war. |
the shield behind which politics take place. |
The war has moved to the west, which is a good . . . indicator that Iraqi and U.S. forces are having an effect elsewhere, ... The amount of infiltration across the Syrian border remains a concern, but it's down, not so much because of Syrian activity, but because of U.S. and Iraqi activity. |
The way we need to deal with them is to be offensive -- to find them and to attack them and also to ensure that we pay attention to what's moving along the Syrian, Jordanian and Saudi borders in particular, |
The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues, |
There are a lot of people in the Middle East who believe our weakness is our inability to stay the course, and they believe that two casualties today, two casualties tomorrow, four the next day, will eventually drive us out, |
There are certainly considerations that we must make with regard to the level of the forces, |