to conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.

This is an important victory for the military and ultimately for our national security.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

I think this man is wrong,

was the jewel of the Middle East at one time and it can be the jewel of the Middle East again.

By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition,