101 Quotes by John Abizaid

Boots per square inch is not the issue. You have to have solid intelligence in a conflict such as this, so you can get to the terrorists,

there's actually some indication, based on intelligence information that we have, that ammo is starting to be difficult for them to obtain in certain areas.

The scope of devastation is gigantic. The level of work which has to be done is very immense,

Tell them we are winning, ... You don't define success as the absence of hard losses. You define it - are you defeating the enemy?

Of course you've heard and seen in the press that Osama bin Laden is surrounded, we have him cornered and we know where he is, etc., etc. And of course, we don't know that,

So we're bringing in as much as we can. I know that NATO forces will be coming and certainly we're bringing more forces from the US, more helicopters.

And the answer is it is, but it's also a difficult road to go on. There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall, the trend is good. We're certainly confident. And the most important thing we're confident about is that the Iraqis want to do this. They want to take the fight. They will take the fight.

that this is not a rush to failure. It's a rush to victory.

The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues,