As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.