It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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,

He thought it was not at all tied to the article in the magazine.

I'm convinced that we're going to be able to identify a plan of work that may be possible to achieve during this interim period,

I'm looking forward to working on things rather than just holding down this spot while the search goes on.