Trent Franks: “I think you so poignantly expressed the nobility of the American soldier. They are the most noble fighting force in the…”

“I think you so poignantly expressed the nobility of the American soldier. They are the most noble fighting force in the world. There is a verse that says, Greater love hath no man than this, than man lay down his life for his friends, and I am certain of what the American soldier has done. I find it kind of interesting as a closing thought that one of the members of the Iraq Governing Council and leader of Iraq's Assyrian Democratic Movement that visited here, his name is Younadem Kana, and he came to America and these were his words about our American soldiers in a sense. They are really to all of us. He said: ``We are calling on America not to stop; to go on with us on this blessed mission, which the Iraqi people will never forget: this blessed mission of liberation, of democracy, and of freedom.'' ``The Iraqi people are free now,'' Kana proclaims. ``For first time in the history of Iraq, for the first time in 14 centuries, our neighbors, and the majority of people today, recognize us and acknowledge us. We are all together on the Governing Council, and the cabinet; our rights are guaranteed under the fundamental law. ``We appreciate the losses of the United States of those 700 victims, martyrs we call them, who shed their blood on Iraqi soil. But compare the losses in 1 year of fighting terrorism to the roughly 3,000 people terrorism killed in America in 2 minutes.”