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.

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.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

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.