Rick Lynch Quotations

We will continue to work away so we have covered every inch ... of Tal Afar, until we've killed all the terrorists and foreign fighters there,

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

Last year, as we worked through the problem set, that (militias) wasn't a problem set we focused on.

We're not seeing civil war ignited in Iraq. We're seeing a competent, capable Iraqi government using their security forces to calm the storm.

That's what happened in Baghdad today and that's what happened in Amman yesterday.

The terrorists had seen it coming (and prepared) tunnel complexes to be used as escape routes,

The terrorists and foreign fighters that he recruits, trains and equips carry out more than 90 percent of the insidious suicide attacks against the men, women and children of Iraq -- attacks that have killed or injured thousands of Iraqis in the last year alone.

The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue.

What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is, ... That's a 'no'.

The difference is that the Iraqi police mechanized brigade actively patrols Route Irish, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ... It transformed it from the highway of death to one of the most safe and secure routes in all of Iraq, again a tribute to the capabilities of these trained and ready police forces.