The military leaders will tell you this battle is not going to be won by military force, it's a political struggle like every insurgency, ... We can buy time and create an environment, but if you don't have the civilian experts, who can talk about reconstruction, political activity, education reform, then we're not gong to improve people's lives.
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There's a real danger today, if political leaders in Baghdad do not step up to the responsibilities, that they will become increasingly irrelevant to the people of Iraq. And that country will tip into sectarian warfare, which will essentially, I think, leave us with very few options in terms of continued presence of our military forces.
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After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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We're not a big corporation - we're not a Wal-Mart, not that we're taking shots at them, because they're a great operation, ... But we have more flexibility, which is both a strength and weakness of our store.
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Mr. Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive, ... Anybody would say putting a bag over someone's head for 72 hours -- which is sensory deprivation.
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