Morale Is Good; Troops Are Confident; Leaders

Everybody Needs To Understand That I Learned Arabic From The United States Army As A Second Language. I Never Spoke It At Home.

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.

Well, The Hardest Thing To Do, As We Know From Our Own Experience On 9/11 Is Protect Everything All The Time.

But As We Move From This Period Of What Many Iraqis Regard As Perceived Occupation, We Need To Move Towards One Of Partnership.

We've Got To Ensure That The Quality And The Capability Of These Forces Will Be Good Enough To Withstand The Challenges That The Insurgents And The Terrorists Will Present To The New Iraqi Government.