Richard Myers
Richard Myers
Richard Bowman Myersis a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman, Myers was the highest ranking uniformed officer of the United States' military forces...
activity couple days last means seeing seen
It's just a little more activity in the last couple of days than we have seen in the last couple of years. But we don't think it means anything more than what we've been seeing
effective feet fight fine helping iraqis line seen stand trying walk war winning
It's trying to walk that very fine line between being seen as an occupier, and being effective and winning this war and helping the Iraqis stand up on their feet and take the fight to the enemy.
count major time unfold
This plan, and our thrust, and our major attacks, and the way it will unfold will be at a time and a place of our choosing. The one thing you can count on is that we're going to have patience,
win
This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.
missiles moved seen zones
This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,
certain irrelevant parts people shut term within
I use the term irrelevant because at this point, they're not going to be able to communicate with the people of Iraq; that will all be shut down, ... They won't be able to communicate within certain parts of Baghdad.
days either footing issues korea north today
I don't see issues with either of those that would tell me that North Korea is on a different footing today than they were, let's say, 30 days ago,
committee hard heard public
I don't think this committee or the American public has ever heard me say that things are going very well in Iraq, ... This is a hard struggle.
carried coalition information involved iraqi minister ordered outer police provided
The information that I have is that it was ordered by the minister of Interior, that it was carried out by the Iraqi Police Service, that U.S. forces, or coalition forces, provided an outer cordon so they weren't involved in going into the facilities,
country baghdad situation
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.
war long enemy
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.
mass-destruction iraq numbers
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.
troops helpful kind
It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.