72 ordspråk av Rick Lynch
Rick Lynch
They've shifted their sight group — their target — to the Iraqi civilians and the Iraqi security force and away from the coalition.
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This was part of our normal procedures and not as a result of demands from terrorists or criminals. We do not negotiate with terrorists or criminals.
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This was the first use of the Iraqi air force,
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Those pictures were pictures of criminal acts that took place many years ago, rogue soldiers doing activity that wasn't supported by their chain of command.
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We are seeing a confident Iraqi government using capable security forces to calm the storm.
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We believe we are experiencing great success against the most crucial element of the insurgency, which is the terrorists and the foreign fighters,
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We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,
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We have indeed seen a reduction in the number of suicide attacks in Baghdad,
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We have killed or captured 500 members of the insurgency in Tal Afar. Our intelligence estimates told us that the number of insurgents in that town probably was somewhere between 500 and 600. So if some got away, it wasn't very many.
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We have reason to believe and evidence to support that the terrorists and foreign fighters are, indeed, using kidnapping as a way to finance their operations.
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We wanted to take advantage of not only our ability to offer lower prices on our name brand products but also to harness the power of the internet which allows people easy online access to ordering 24 hours a day.
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We will continue this mission for as long as it takes... and leave a sizable and credible force to deter the terrorists,
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We will continue to work away so we have covered every inch ... of Tal Afar, until we've killed all the terrorists and foreign fighters there,
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We're convinced we're going to fight our way to the elections,
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We're not seeing civil war ignited in Iraq. We're seeing a competent, capable Iraqi government using their security forces to calm the storm.
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