surely the next 9/11 would be right around the corner.

Now the number two person, the person that is his [al-Zarqawi’s] primary facilitator, the one that organizes things operationally, certainly in Baghdad, and has a lot of responsibility for the al Qaeda finances in Iraq,...

I think this is going to be a long, hard-fought conflict, and it will be global in scale,

Some of the troops that are withdrawing are actually going to re-arm and refit themselves and then perhaps go back into the area to finish the job, … Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

About 25 percent of them can do independent operations or operations with little help from coalition forces, but every week that number changes and goes up.

Obviously, any time you have detainees who will sacrifice their life to kill you or what you stand for, I mean, that’s the most dangerous type of individual you can have in your control,

We’re going to have to put these pieces together, … We have people that are working that.

an important message, I think, for the regime and the people of Iraq to understand: that this regime is gone.

Nothing was ever approved officially by anybody to the best of my knowledge that was not humane and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions,

We don’t know for sure that he’s there, but he’s been there before, … Late Edition.

The most important thing we have … right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve.

Well, that’s obviously a very big worry. … We are probably, I think without question, the country that is most dependent on information technology. So we know we have those vulnerabilities.

This plan, and our thrust, and our major attacks, and the way it will unfold will be at a time and a place of our choosing. The one thing you can count on is that...

The Marines are obeying the cease-fire, but they’re being fired upon. They can return fire in self-defense, which they do, but they’re trying their best to follow the rules of the cease-fire,

Some of the biggest losses we have taken are due to Iraqis’ committing serious violations of the law of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions by dressing as civilians and luring us into surrender situations...

That is not how the American military acts or should act, … And it’s really a shame that just a handful can besmirch maybe the reputations of hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and sailors,...

They attacked Iraqi security forces, trying to keep people from signing up to defend their country. … We have more recruits than we can actually, than the Iraqis can handle, … Face the Nation.

pockets of resistance remain.

You would expect the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the whole Department of Defense community to be working on all sorts of contingencies for various situations, and...

They’ll have a lot more to be concerned about shortly,

The information that I have is that it was ordered by the minister of Interior, that it was carried out by the Iraqi Police Service, that U.S. forces, or coalition forces, provided an outer cordon...

We think they’ll dig in and fight and fight, perhaps to the end,

If they highly recommend it, then I highly recommend they attend the next meeting.

We can’t find anything to substantiate the allegations that appeared in Newsweek,

not a cut-and-run strategy.

Not only was there no delay, I think we anticipated in most cases not in all cases, but in most cases the support that was required.

While it’s a sad day for those who were killed, and their families and their friends, we continue to be optimistic about the situation on the ground in Iraq.

We’re now in there on the ground and starting our investigation of exactly who’s up there and what’s up there, … Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

It’s trying to walk that very fine line between being seen as an occupier, and being effective and winning this war and helping the Iraqis stand up on their feet and take the fight to...

Iraqi actions to do so would not only violate this law, but could be considered a war crime in any conflict

We know this is the most intensive time of training for them. That’s always the winter training cycle, where they conduct the majority of their training, their most intensive training.

I’m looking forward to working on things rather than just holding down this spot while the search goes on.

That I can’t tell you, … What I can tell you is the organization that he is associated with has provided intelligence to our intelligence unit there in Baghdad that has saved soldiers’ lives.

Talk about a guy who has no moral foundation. It’s an absolute outrage,

They have looked through the logs, interrogation logs, and they cannot confirm yet that there was ever the case of the toilet incident,

should not be a surprise.

I don’t think this committee or the American public has ever heard me say that things are going very well in Iraq, … This is a hard struggle.

How can I ignore the expert opinion of General Myers, who is concerned with the safety of his troops?

All the service chiefs were in total support of Gen. [Tommy] Franks’ plan, the numbers we had planned, all of that. We were all on board,

He will not be the head. He may have a role to play, but that vetting has yet to take place, … This Week.

I’ve been told by people that have seen it that it does, in fact, show the aircraft being fired upon. But I haven’t seen it,

When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? … You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever’s happening inside...

I don’t think that would be one of our options.

With muscle, determination, marble, cement and Indiana limestone, you did more than repair our windows and walls, you repaired our souls,

He thought it was not at all tied to the article in the magazine.

very, very dangerous people … who have killed.

the outcome and consequences of defeat are greater than World War II.

The stakes in this war on terrorism simply couldn’t be higher,

We’re never going to hide those numbers,

We are not doing any pre-planned operations today, as Friday is the Muslim holy day. But we do have forces available to hit any emerging targets.