Many schools and markets are reopening. Citizens are coming forward with vital intelligence. Sectarian killings are down...
Now, the Iraqi government must bring the same determination to achieving reconciliation. This is an enormous undertaking...
Either we will succeed or we won't succeed. And the definition of success, as I described, is, you know, sectarian viole...
Our mission is to help the elected government in Iraq defeat common enemies, to bring peace and stability to Iraq, and m...
The way forward I have described tonight makes it possible, for the first time in years, for people who have been on opp...
If we were to be driven out of Iraq, extremists of all strains would be emboldened. al Qaeda could gain new recruits and...
Now, because of the measure of success we are seeing in Iraq, we can begin seeing troops come home.
They understand that their success will require U.S. political, economic and security engagement that extends beyond my ...
The success of a free Iraq is critical to the security of the United States. A free Iraq will deny al Qaeda a safe haven...
It's a new mission. And David Petraeus is in Iraq carrying it out. Its goal is to help the Iraqis make progress toward r...
The principle guiding my decisions on troop levels in Iraq is 'return on success' – the more successful we are, the more...
We also had a church service earlier, and I thank particularly the Speaker and the leader for being there as well.
I thank the Members for coming and giving me their honest appraisal of whether they think we can find common ground or n...
I thank the leadership of the Congress for joining us here to discuss the testimonies delivered by General Petraeus and ...
Yes. We have had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the -- September the 11th. No, what the vice presiden...
The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, ...
It's our responsibility to ensure that we run our Government wisely and to spend the people's money wisely.
Now is the time to do the hard work in order to make sure that we can have a peaceful world.