This is the year that we are going to try to sustain the accomplishments on the political, economic and security tracks.

We're putting a total of almost 15 billion dollars of US money into the Iraqi security forces. Obviously we have an obligation to the US taxpayer to ensure that that money is correctly used.

The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful difference, and the Iraqi population strongly rejects the insurgency and participates in the political process.

It's been very hard to find any effect from border security.

The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in.

Network and security personnel face the challenge of managing an increasing number and types of disparate monitoring tools, which are necessary to maintain and protect the rapidly growing volume of traffic on both the enterprise and service provider networks.