Mark Kennedy: “I could not be prouder either and the gentleman is right. We have 130-or-so thousand, from I think it is up to 30…”

“I could not be prouder either and the gentleman is right. We have 130-or-so thousand, from I think it is up to 30 countries now. It is about 55,000 Iraqis on the job making sure that Iraqis are safe, and that number is growing. I think it is the Czech Republic that stepped forward to train another 25,000-or-so on a police program up in their country and get them more on duty to guard their own country. One of the other things that is really very gratifying is that our soldiers are working with the people to make the country better; and as they go on these raids that the gentleman spoke of earlier and they are collecting a million dollars here, a hundred million dollars there as part of those raids of money that was stolen from the American people, they are putting it back to work on projects there in Iraq. In fact, there are 6,000 projects that have been completed and these might be cleaning up the school, making it more presentable and safe and a better learning environment, helping with the hospitals. We were in a neonatal institute there in Baghdad. Helping the water be a little bit cleaner, buying a fire engine for the local fire department, buying equipment for the local police department, on and on and on these projects are going on.”