Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I will continue on the same subject as the Senator from Montana and talk about what we are doing in Iraq. The meetings…”

“I will continue on the same subject as the Senator from Montana and talk about what we are doing in Iraq. The meetings we had with Ambassador Bremer brought much more clarity to the progress being made in Iraq. Everyone is stunned and saddened by the loss of life of our soldiers that we see, unfortunately, on a daily basis. This gets worse every day because we are sick about losing these soldiers. Part of the reason we have not been able to capture these people who are doing these horrible acts to our soldiers--one and two and three at a time--is because Iraqi people do not yet believe we are there to stay until they have a democracy in place. There is widespread belief in Iraq that Saddam Hussein is coming back. When we were able to capture the sons of Saddam Hussein, and they are now dead, that sent a message to the people of Iraq that we are going to capture Saddam Hussein. We are not going to stop until we know he is captured or dead. Two of his sons are dead, the two who would have been heirs to his incredibly cruel regime. They are dead. They are gone. I applaud the President for saying he is going to show the dead bodies so the people of Iraq will be assured.”