John Cornyn: “there are two things on my mind today that I wanted to share with our colleagues. First of all, I wanted to come to the…”

“there are two things on my mind today that I wanted to share with our colleagues. First of all, I wanted to come to the floor to take issue with something that I view as a disturbing trend that I have seen develop over the last few days when it comes to our ongoing efforts to liberate the Iraqi people and to fight the global war on terror. Yesterday, during a 9 a.m. press conference with MG Bill Caldwell, the military spokesman in Baghdad, regarding the mission that killed terrorist Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, one reporter asked: Were you going for Zarqawi? We've heard that you have been going for some other people and then there was some luck involved. To which Major General Caldwell replied: We knew exactly who was there. We knew it was Zarqawi. And that was the deliberate target that we went to get. An AP story yesterday said: What may have changed the Americans' luck was U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad's efforts to mend relations with Iraq's minority Sunni Arabs, alienated by the U.S. invasion and the new Shiite-dominated government.…”