I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.
I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.
I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.
But my Arabic is pretty good. It’s good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they’re feeling.
But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.
As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it’s not just Zarqawi.
Nobody’s more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
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.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation.
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.