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John Abizaid

"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."

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"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."

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John Abizaid
"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."

Terrorism

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John Abizaid
"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."

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John Abizaid
"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."

Experience

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John Abizaid
"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

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John Abizaid
"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."

Security

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John Abizaid
"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

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John Abizaid
"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."

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John Abizaid
"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."

Cause

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John Abizaid
"I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people."

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John Abizaid
"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

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Aberjhani

"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."

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Aberjhani

"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."

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Aberjhani

"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."

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Aberjhani

"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."

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Aberjhani

"Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me."

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Aberjhani

"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."

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Aberjhani

"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."

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Aberjhani

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

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Aberjhani

"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."

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Aberjhani

"Accomplishments have no color."

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