Question-and-Answer Session

Q:

I missed
the personal view.

Q:

I'm here
every day.
I don't see.

Q:

No, I don't just say,
“long-term,” “short-term,”
“in,” and “out.”

Q:

I do not think
the period
is still on the table.
I don't believe
it's on the table
anymore;
it wasn't
when I left.

Q:

Again, I wish—
My view is—
I'll give you
my opinion:
“disenfranchisement.”
My opinion
is free and fair.

Q:

It's undetermined somewhere.

Q:

You guard it.
You restrict it.
You keep it.
I mean, rather than
just huddling around.
That's offensive.

Q:

I wouldn't necessarily see it.
I would see a symbol.
In actuality, it's a classic technique
to provoke
an action-reaction-counteraction
cycle that we go through.

Q:

A little bit of each: we're working
with the traffic, the road.

Q:

Behind you and back.

Q:

My view is on track.
Accomplishing our objectives
is representative of all the people.
I believe
we will get there,
and I believe
we are there.

Q:

What was the second part?

Q:

I do. I mean, my! What I believe!

Q:

To help 25
young women:
that's what makes
this country great.

Q:

Last part first.

Q:

Their ultimate disposition.

Q:

Everyone has a story,
a variety of places.

Q:

Oh, I will tell you,
going after the fish
is really providing direction.

Q:

It has been
an important
intermediate hypothetical,
the answer to that.

Q:

Well, you also have
a good answer
to that hypothetical.

Q:

Let me talk and build
improvised devices,
rehearse with impunity.
That's what they had,
that's what they don't have anymore.
That's what they had for a while,
that's what they don't have anymore.

The status quo needs to improve.

Q:

To be clearly elsewhere—
dramatically, necessarily, frankly.
Oh, yeah.

Q:

That's a great question.
We think you know
we felt we needed momentum,
pressure, training.
Crank all the way up.

Q:

I said, “Everybody knows the bag,”
but we're generally pleased.

Q:

Frankly, I've thought
about the need
to pay and encourage,
maybe. To
continue to move.

Q:

I wouldn't want potential go-ahead.

Q:

We're working. We've said
we'll be working. We need to have
a second point.
Third point is, I think. Oh, absolutely.

Q:

I mean the history of a long, long time.

Q:

I have two concerns.
As you suggest,
a direct involvement is coming.
Stop it, stop it.

Q:

He's a back-and-forther in there.

Q:

What I have attacked fairly heavily
wasn't a complete shock.

Created from a Department of Defense news briefing held Thursday, December 16, 2004.