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.

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

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

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.