Zarqawi was taking advantage of tensions that had been on the ground and taking a candle to that pocket of gas. You could watch the country going aflame. We needed to get zarqawi. But he was good at evading capture. He could essentially remain invisible. Zarqawi made it clear we could lose in iraq. My fellow citizens, at this hour american and Coalition Forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. Every politician wants us to go crush an army. They give us their flag, and we can all go home and everybody is wonderful, like a world war ii victory. That shit aint going to happen. In the battle of iraq the United States and our allies have prevailed. [ cheers and applause ] the United States and allies invaded iraq in the spring of 2003 and there was a set of assumptions that proved to be wrong. One, that we would be accepted as liberators, and two, that there would be the ability to turn the keys over
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you re talking engineers, teachers, a cleric. we narrowed the 12 down to five. we bring the five up to balad for questioning and through interrogations we narrowed that down really to the one guy. and that was abu alawi. we did not mistreat prisoners. the two interrogators, a male and female that worked with them, built a real relationship with him. they took him down to baghdad one time to let him meet other people. they let him watch his favorite movie one night, which was the exorcist. then finally after about 40 days they felt frustrated that he knew more than he was willing to tell. and so they said, okay, we are going to stop interrogating you. we re going to send you on in a regular detention system. of course, he didn t want to be put in the regular detention system. so at a certain point he simply said, i have something to tell
captured were clearly not farmers. you re talking engineers, teachers, a cleric. we narrowed the 12 down to five. we bring the five up to balad for questioning and through interrogations we narrowed that down really to the one guy. and that was abu alawi. we did not mistreat prisoners. the two interrogators, a male and female that worked with them, built a real relationship with him. they took him down to baghdad one time to let him meet other people. they let him watch his favorite movie one night, which was the exorcist. then finally after about 40 days they felt frustrated that he knew more than he was willing to tell. and so they said, okay, we are going to stop interrogating you. we re going to send you on in a regular detention system. of course, he didn t want to be put in the regular detention system.