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Because they get to choose the time and place and because they're able to use terrorist and insurgent tactics, they can continually wear you down politically.

With the polls open and insurgent attacks in parts of Baghdad, the measure of success of the referendum will depend in part on Sunni participation in the vote,

What can the insurgents do that's worse? There are already car bombs every day.

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.

Through intelligence sources we determined there were a large number of insurgents in that area,

The pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,

There's no way I can control this area with the men I have, ... The reports are that the insurgents are using these southern control points because they're open. We can't keep them closed because I don't have the manpower.

only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.

There are always going to be insurgents in Iraq ... and there's always going to be bombs going off. That's the nature of that neighborhood, ... The key is: Can this military defend its civil government and be accountable and responsible to it? I think they're going to hold.

If we used that fortress mentality and created a sense of security and security zones, and wait for the insurgents to come to us and don't go after them . . . and protect the people inside that zone, allow them to feel more comfortable and more confident and allow them to get an economy going . . . then at that point Iraqis are going to be more willing to assume the front lines of that fortress.