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"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."
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"Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God."
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"F.B.I and C.I.A use coded words.... Don't be stupid, remove everything which shows the location. Good Luck Killer :)!"
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"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."
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"So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. I'll still have a job on Monday. Yeah?" He turned and looked at Richard.Richard nodded, hesitantly. "Yeah."
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"Weaponry is a fear-raising idea."
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"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."
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"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
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"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."
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"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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"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."
Fashion

"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
Leadership

"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
Military

"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."
Experience

"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."
People

"Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation."
Goal

"Our forces will not be on the sidelines."
Will

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

"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."
Change

"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
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