Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

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

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

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

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.