John Abizaid

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to…

— John Abizaid

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and…

— John Abizaid

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure…

— John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where…

— John Abizaid

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand…

— John Abizaid

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that…

— John Abizaid

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at…

— John Abizaid

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

— John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's…

— John Abizaid

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

— John Abizaid

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

— John Abizaid

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad,…

— John Abizaid

Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

— John Abizaid

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security…

— John Abizaid