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

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

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

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

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.

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

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.