Political Quotes

“to return to the pending amendment offered by myself on behalf of the joint leadership of the Senate, this bipartisan amendment commends basically the U.S. Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and other agencies, along with coalition partners for the actions taken on June 7, 2006, that resulted in the death of Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The military operation that resulted in the death of Zarqawi was truly an extraordinarily professional accomplishment of the combined U.S. and coalition forces and the infrastructure of intelligence, both civilian and military, that supported the operation. It displayed the precision, perseverence, and professionalism of our Armed Forces, supported by a sophisticated and superb intelligence apparatus that included U.S., Iraqi, and coalition intelligence organizations. Behind the details that were made public so far, I assure all that there were months of coordinated hard work by analysts, human intelligence operatives, special operations forces, and military planners which were in place at the time various pieces of information with a precise direction to the whereabouts of Zarqawi came into the knowledge of the intelligence operators. The death of Zarqawi is certainly a significant blow to the terrorist network in Iraq, Osama bin Laden's international network, and the al- Qaida organization wherever they lurk in the world today in the shadows of death and destruction to the freedom of others.…”