“General Franks [has] already shown that he's more than willing to come and talk to you at the right time. But he's fighting a war right now. And he has me to do this for him,”
“Right now, these are the tactics of terrorists ... We don't have a good number on how many (non-Iraqi fighters) there are, but we know they don't have a future in Iraq.”
“I don't think that we have necessarily underestimated it and I'm certain we accounted for enemy action. The specifics of the action -- no one can ever predict exactly how battle will unfold. We can't even completely predict how our own actions will unfold, but I think we can remain confident we have a good grip of what's going on here,”
“We think it's entirely possible that this may have been in fact an Iraqi missile that either went up and came down or, given the behaviors of the regime lately, it may have been a deliberate attack inside of town,”
“He was a terrorist, he remains a terrorist and he will be viewed as such, ... Notwithstanding any declarations that have been made in recent years, his links to terrorism remain abundantly clear.”
“[The pilgrims are] participating in something that would not have been possible before, ... And thus far it has occurred without any significant incidents.”
“While there may be a number of similarities to what the Geneva Convention describes, that's not a category that we have stated publicly at this point, ... Whether that changes over time needs to be seen.”
“We believe that the attack was effective in causing destruction of that facility. ... As to who was inside and what their conditions are, it will take some time before we can make that full determination.”
