Richard Myers Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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 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,

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

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.