This ought to be condition-based, not timeline-based. |
This plan, and our thrust, and our major attacks, and the way it will unfold will be at a time and a place of our choosing. The one thing you can count on is that we're going to have patience, |
This preserves for the president all the options that a president would want to have in case this country or our friends and allies were attacked with weapons of mass destruction, be they nuclear, biological, chemical or, for that matter, high explosives, |
Troop levels are going to be what the commanders wanted and what they've asked for ... So nothing has changed. |
U.S. armed forces and our allies will prevail, |
very, very dangerous people ... who have killed. |
We are hitting targets similar to those hit yesterday, |
We are not doing any pre-planned operations today, as Friday is the Muslim holy day. But we do have forces available to hit any emerging targets. |
We believe there are more than 100 additional caves in the area, so operations will probably most likely continue for the next few days, |
We can't find anything to substantiate the allegations that appeared in Newsweek, |
We certainly expect conflict in that part of Afghanistan, |
We did have a tragic death last night, but that I don't think has anything to do with the situation. The situation continues to get better over here. We're thinking very seriously about moving into stability operations in most of the country. |
We did well in our first strikes, ... But not perfect. |
We don't know for sure that he's there, but he's been there before, ... Late Edition. |
We gave him our best military advice and I think that's what we're obligated to do. If we don't do that, we should be shot. |