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Certainly Our Goal Is To Leave Iraq, But We Can't Leave Iraq With Our Forces Until We Know That The Iraqi Security Forces Are Capable And Efficient Enough To Defend The Sovereignty Of The Nation.

And Over Time, I Think, As Iraqi Security Capacity Builds, You'll See American And Coalition Presence There Decline.

Clearly The Secretary Of Defense, My Boss, Would Like Nothing Better Than To Get Osama Bin Laden And To Get... To Ensure The Complete Defeat Of Al-qaida, Because We Know That Al-qaida Is Planning Operations Against The United States Even As We Speak Here.

But The Key Shift In Focus Will Be From Counter-insurgency Operations To More And More Cooperation With Iraqi Security Forces And To Building Iraqi Security Capacity.

But Clearly The Fact That We've Gone From Zero Iraqi Security Forces On Duty In May To Up To 200,000 Today Is An Enormous Accomplishment, But It's Not Enough.