Richard Myers Quotations

surely the next 9/11 would be right around the corner.

We believe there are more than 100 additional caves in the area, so operations will probably most likely continue for the next few days,

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.

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,

very, very dangerous people ... who have killed.

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,

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.

This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

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,

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.

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

It will have some effect, but over time they will replace people,

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.

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.

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.

They'll have a lot more to be concerned about shortly,

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

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,

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

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,

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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