Morale Is Good; Troops Are Confident; Leaders

Well, The Hardest Thing To Do, As We Know From Our Own Experience On 9/11 Is Protect Everything All The Time.

It's Clear To Me Now That We've Got To Reach Out To The Arab Sunni Community In Particular In An Effort To Cause Some Moderate Political Activity To Take Place So They Join The Future Of Iraq.

I Think You Also Understand That One Of The Key Things That's Got To Be Done In Iraq Is To Build A Mentality Of Understanding That The Military Needs To Be Subordinate To Civilian Control And Respectful Of Its Own People.

Oh, The Transition Concerns Me Because As We Move Towards An Important Political Event, It's Clear To Me That The Terrorists And Insurgents Will Move As Hard As They Can To Disrupt This Process.

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.