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

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

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.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

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.