It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.

When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.