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

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

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.

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

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

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.