Political Quotes

“as we have been doing over the last several weeks, we are devoting a few moments each morning to pay respect to the tremendous work our troops are doing overseas. Evidence continues to build that American and coalition forces are advancing, that they will prevail in this war. Coalition aircraft destroyed a complex believed to be the site of an Iraqi leadership meeting. Coalition forces are conducting operations at will throughout Baghdad, and British forces now control most of Iraq's second largest city. The threat of Chemical Ali, the Iraqi general responsible for the atrocious chemical attacks on the Kurds in the 1980s, has reportedly been eliminated. We have captured more than 7,000 Iraqi prisoners of war. Of the more than 800 tanks in the Iraqi Army when this conflict began, all but a few, a couple dozen, have been destroyed or abandoned. Coalition forces continue to generate good will among the Iraqi people, as we saw on the television early this morning, by delivering humanitarian supplies the country so desperately needs. I applaud a very special group of people in Iraq, and that is the medical workers, the medical personnel, the troops who are responsible for delivering care, both in Iraq and the surrounding region. They are providing superb care, not only to fellow Americans who have been wounded on the battlefield but also to nearly 300 wounded Iraqi soldiers, as well as civilians.”