But As We Move From This Period

You Don't Build A New Power Plant In The United States Overnight. It Takes Years To Build.

We'll Try To Include Iraqi Officers In Our Staffs. We Will Do Everything We Can To Empower Iraqi Security Forces To Stand Up On Their Own And Operate Where They Can Alone.

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.

Capturing Any Member Of Any Terrorist Cell Or Any Insurgent Cell That We May Happen To Come Across Is Always Very, Very Valuable, And The Thing That Interests Me Is That In Most Instances After A Time People Talk And They Tell Us What They Know.

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.