Todd Tiahrt: “the ``Book on Terror'' has a chapter in it labeled ``Iraq.'' You cannot close the Book on Terror without closing the…”

“the ``Book on Terror'' has a chapter in it labeled ``Iraq.'' You cannot close the Book on Terror without closing the chapter on Iraq. We are there to make America safe. On September 11 we were thrust into this war on terrorism. We realized then we cannot make every airport, every water tower, every bus line, every shopping center in America safe. We decided we had to find the root cause of terrorism and sever the root. That is why we are in Iraq. We are finding the root cause of terrorism and severing the root. What we found 3 weeks ago when I went to Iraq and when we met with the commander of the Marine Fourth Infantry Division, General Odeniero, that in areas where we have rebuilt the community, where we have opened the playgrounds, where we have opened the schools, where we have made sure the hospitals were open, the water was running, the lights were on, where they had a community, those are the areas where people of Iraq have come forward and showed us where the bad guys were.”