"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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Source : "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

John Abizaid

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“Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, itâ€™s impossible.”
“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”
“Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.”
“When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.”
“Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.”
“I'll be your number one with a bullet.”
“I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.”

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