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...
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That I can't tell you, ... What I can tell you is the organization that he is associated with has provided intelligence to our intelligence unit there in Baghdad that has saved soldiers' lives.
aircraft fired people seen
I've been told by people that have seen it that it does, in fact, show the aircraft being fired upon. But I haven't seen it,
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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.
dangerous people
very, very dangerous people ... who have killed.
additional believe caves continue few likely next operations
We believe there are more than 100 additional caves in the area, so operations will probably most likely continue for the next few days,
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There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,
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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.
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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
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They attacked Iraqi security forces, trying to keep people from signing up to defend their country. ... We have more recruits than we can actually, than the Iraqis can handle, ... Face the Nation.
replace time
It will have some effect, but over time they will replace people,
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We are not doing any pre-planned operations today, as Friday is the Muslim holy day. But we do have forces available to hit any emerging targets.
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About 25 percent of them can do independent operations or operations with little help from coalition forces, but every week that number changes and goes up.
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,
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This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.