Political Quotes

“You know, it is inspiring to see those folks and also knowing that, you know, whether it is an American or an Iraqi injured on the battlefield, that is the quality of care that they are going to get. I think we also heard the number that, you know, the vast majority of injuries today are coming from the IEDs. These things are becoming more and more sophisticated. But, you know, it shows that the enemy is not engaging us, they are moving to what we would call asymmetrical tactics. They are not engaging us or the Iraqis directly. They are using these improvised explosive devices or they are attacking civilian targets, where fitting to their name they can create terror. But they are also using that tactic to try to divide the country between Sunnis and Shiia. And this is why the government has to, the Iraqi Government has to step up and provide the security envelope so that the militias can be disbanded, the militias that are forming in the Shiia areas and the Sunni areas. Because our understanding, when I talked to David Pate from my district, he said, you know, when you talk to the Iraqi soldiers, they do not say, if you ask them, are you a Shiia or a Sunni, the Army is moving to the level of professionalism where they say, you know, they do not say I am a Shiia or a Sunni, what they say is I am an Iraqi. So they are focusing on the country. That is not everybody. You know, sectarian violence is something that we are very, very concerned about. It is evident.…”