He has needed help for 2 or 3 years and it has not arrived.

I have not seen a lot of commitment outside of DOD to succeeding in Iraq.

the insurgency it is a Sunni insurgency.

a military strategy alone without a functional Iraqi government and without the support of non-DOD agencies cannot effectively prevail in Iraq.

the Shia militia are deliberately avoiding contact with us.

this strategy of a surge I think is probably compromised by the same factors.

I just fear that you're going to be placed in an impossible situation.

the cancer is militias, both Sunni and Shia.

Even Prime Minister Maliki told me that some of these ministerial forces are worse than the insurgents.

Well, then he should be fired, because, frankly, if he's not capable of being the individual responsible for those duties and they've passed it on to someone else, then why is he there? That's my view.

the effect of our operations or the perception of our operations at least initially would be that we are conducting generally attacks against Sunni forces.

I think if the President was really serious he should replace Mr. Hadley, appoint you as a civilian, not as an Army officer.