Political Quotes

“we are now 12 days into Operation Iraqi Freedom. As I mentioned yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit the post of the 101st Airborne Division this weekend. It was a remarkable opportunity for me, and I wish to share with you a couple of my thoughts on that visit. Our troops over the last 12 days have advanced 220 miles and now are sitting about 50 miles outside of Baghdad. We are all exposed, on the television and through our briefings, to the repetitive pounding of military targets day and night throughout Iraq. The key point, I believe, is that we do keep building our momentum both in Iraq and in America. We have achieved many key objectives, and we will--there is no question--we will achieve our ultimate objective, and that is to disarm Saddam Hussein and to liberate the Iraqi people from his oppressive rule. I am confident about that for so many reasons, but a lot of it has become real to me in a very personal sense after my visit to the 101st Airborne Division. For example, SP John G. Young is assigned to the A Company, 8th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. He left Fort Campbell on March 1 of this year for Kuwait. He is crew chief on a CH-47 somewhere in the Iraqi desert. He is newly married. He is expecting a child in a few months and is doing an extraordinary job in Operation Iraqi Freedom. We thank him, we thank his mother, and we thank his wife for their courage.”