You Know As Well As I Do

Nobody's More Mindful Of The Sacrifices Of Our Troops Than Those Of Us That Command Them.

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 My Arabic Is Pretty Good. It's Good Enough To Have Conversations With People, To Understand What They Say, To Understand What They're Feeling.

Morale Is Good; Troops Are Confident; Leaders Are Capable.