The difference is that the Iraqi police mechanized brigade actively patrols Route Irish, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ... It transformed it from the highway of death to one of the most safe and secure routes in all of Iraq, again a tribute to the capabilities of these trained and ready police forces. |
The government of Iraq has decided that they won't accept militias on the street. The government of Iraq has decided that the Mahdi militia is out there, and shouldn't be out there. |
The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue. |
The Iraqi government, at the point of crisis, decided to impose certain emergency measures. They relied on the Iraqi security forces to implement those measures. |
The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect. |
The rats know we are closing in on them, |
The terrorists and foreign fighters that he recruits, trains and equips carry out more than 90 percent of the insidious suicide attacks against the men, women and children of Iraq -- attacks that have killed or injured thousands of Iraqis in the last year alone. |
The terrorists had seen it coming (and prepared) tunnel complexes to be used as escape routes, |
There are indeed areas of Iraq that are relatively safe and secure, and the people in those provinces are working their way toward to a peaceful and democratic society, |
There are indeed militias, and the Iraqi law wants to integrate those militias into the Iraqi security force or disband those militias. Some of them did that, some of them still have displaced loyalties that have joined the Iraqi security forces ... and they could conduct the same kind of thing that we saw in that particular event. |
There seems to be this basic idea that we attack a city, the insurgents run away and go somewhere else, and I've got to tell you, that's not happening, |
These spikes of violence are predictable around certain critical events that highlight the progress of democracy, |
These spikes of violence are predictable around certain critical events that highlight the progress of democracy, ... Remember, democracy equals failure for the insurgency. So there has to be heightened awareness now as we work our way toward the referendum. |
They were bound, they were together, there were no kidnappers in the area. |
They're not going to be leaving early as a result of the hurricane, |