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.
And So I Think That If The Person Has The Funds, The Network, And The Equipment To Do This, And Also The Experience, Which Is The Key Factor, Then They Can Be Quite Deadly.
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.
Well, The Hardest Thing To Do, As We Know From Our Own Experience On 9/11 Is Protect Everything All The Time.
I Believe We've... We've Worked Very Hard With The Iraqis To Build A Better Place Ever Since The Fall Of Saddam's Government.
As Far As Zarqawi Is Concerned, There Is A Network Of Extremists; It's Not Just Zarqawi.
But Clearly The Fact That We've Gone From Zero Iraqi Security Forces On Duty In May To Up To 200,000 Today Is An Enormous Accomplishment, But It's Not Enough.
But The Key Shift In Focus Will Be From Counter-insurgency Operations To More And More Cooperation With Iraqi Security Forces And To Building Iraqi Security Capacity.
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.
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.
