Mark Kennedy: “as the gentleman mentioned, with electricity, we are bringing forth that core concept of equal treatment under the law.…”

“as the gentleman mentioned, with electricity, we are bringing forth that core concept of equal treatment under the law. No longer does the Baath Party chair or the Sunni Arabs around Baghdad get their electricity before the rest of the country. Everybody is being treated equal. Now the children are also benefiting from those schools. We are not having Saddam Hussein's picture on every other page of the textbooks. We have had some very vicious attacks on Iraq by terrorists recently. This is the new front for the war on terrorism. We are fighting them in their area of strength. Patton said, do not let the enemy pick where you are going to fight, bring the battle to them, and we are. But those terrorists think they are somehow hurting America and dividing us from the American people, but I sense something completely different. When they attack the U.N., they are attacking the people who are trying to help in Iraq. When they attack the Shiite cleric in Najaf, they are creating a common enemy. The Iraqi people and America have a common enemy, and these acts are pulling us together toward the same goal of getting to the point of security and government where everybody in Iraq, as mentioned, can be equal under the law, and that is the final goal that we have to achieve before we turn over the reins.”