You truly are America's Iron Soldiers.

Our mission is to implement the peace treaty, the military aspects of it.

Men and women of Task Force Eagle, I know the burden of our country's leadership now weighs most heavily on you and your families.

But I do want you to go there on a mission of peace.

To General Thurman's family and friends and to the Army community, I extend my heartfelt condolences.

You are about to do something very important for your Nation, very important for the world, very important for the future that you want your own children to have.

They have the noblest mission of all: to stop incredible human suffering and lift people's lives.

Our troops are the best trained, best equipped, best prepared fighting force in the world.

Once they're in, they're in.

Today I am speaking to you from Germany, and I am with the men and women of the United States Army's 1st Armored Division.

I think that the support is building in the United States.

We will not allow them to come back and -- like we saw.

I wanted to come here to look into their faces and into the faces of their wives, their husbands, and their children because I think they are about to do a very noble and important thing for our country and for the world.

The men and women with whom I spoke today are committed to the humanitarian mission of saving the lives of the children and innocent civilians.

I am immensely proud to be here today with the men and women of the 1st Armored Division.

We're not in the killing business.

I think it's important for the American people to understand that with our volunteer Army now, it's more and more of a family place.

We have a sizeable enough force.