28 Quotes by Rick Lynch

We believe we are experiencing great success against the most crucial element of the insurgency, which is the terrorists and the foreign fighters,

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is, ... That's a 'no'.

He was in a situation where we believed he was conducting suspicious activities. His response to the initial investigation was suspicious in itself. He was detained ... but he was released three days later,

It happened again today and it can happen again tomorrow, ... We are convinced that we are going to fight our way to the elections.

Last year, as we worked through the problem set, that (militias) wasn't a problem set we focused on.

That's what happened in Baghdad today and that's what happened in Amman yesterday.

We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,

We're not seeing civil war ignited in Iraq. We're seeing a competent, capable Iraqi government using their security forces to calm the storm.