Political Quotes

“some ask, are you winning the war on terror, and the level of violence in Iraq is something that we are very, very disappointed in. But the gentleman is absolutely right. We should not be surprised. There was a letter that we intercepted and captured a couple of weeks ago that clearly indicates we are making progress, because the letter indicates that, Hey, we need to kill Americans and coalition forces; but where we really now need to move to, because we know that they are being successful, we need to target Iraqis, either to discourage them from moving forward to building a new Iraq, and to try to create divisions between the Shiites and the Sunnis and the Kurds and try to incite civil war. The terrorist organizations and individuals who feel that they will be disenfranchised because they are associated with the former regime will do just about anything to keep power, and that anything right now means that they will target and kill Iraqis. When we were there, we had the opportunity to meet with 600, 500, 600 police cadets, and we went there because the week before we were there, again, two bombings and over 100 either police recruits or policemen were killed. They are the first step in building a civil society, keeping law and order on the streets. And we talked to them; we laid a wreath at the academy and spoke with them about how we were going to stand with them.”