We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

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

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.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

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

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