This is about you... . You did it on time, you did it with a good plan, you did it with violent execution, you did it taking care of one another, |
until I tell my boss, 'That's enough.' |
until we have completed our objective. |
we are making great progress. |
We have been able to watch a variety of terrain and undertake review of a whole variety of imagery and talk to an awful lot of people over time, ... Factually, those are the places right now we have been led to pay very close attention to. |
We have spent treasure and we have had casualties. I believe that we ought to all recognize that if you're a mom, a dad, a husband, a wife of someone lost in a war, the casualties have not been low. |
We will find the facts we need to find, and we'll use the lessons that we learn from Cole to provide the best possible force protection for our troops in one of the most dangerous regions of the world, |
We will see casualties in the days ahead. |
We'll have that pretty well cleared and be out of there in the next day or so, |
We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge, |
We're determined to get to the bottom of this, |
We're going to continue to engage Afghan authorities on this matter in order to help seek accountability for any violations that may have occurred. |
We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan, |
We're taking part in a global war on terrorism, |
We've got to get after it and stay after it. |