John Abizaid

(21 votes)   But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

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(19 votes)   We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

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(18 votes)   Militarily we are not in any danger of losing. We can't be defeated militarily based on what the enemy currently throws against us.

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(18 votes)   Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

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(18 votes)   The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in.

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(18 votes)   Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

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(17 votes)   Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

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(17 votes)   It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

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(17 votes)   So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

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(16 votes)   And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

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(16 votes)   Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

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(16 votes)   I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

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(16 votes)   It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

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(14 votes)   But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

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(14 votes)   I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

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