What I've asked for is essentially to have a strong mobile combat arms capability, ... That's probably about two brigades worth of combat power, if not more.
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is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, that is militarily effective and loyal to the established civil government.
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We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,
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a classical guerrilla-type campaign.
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And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.
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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
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