[jveritas]

There is much less violence than before. As I said before from all practical military perspectives both Al Qaeda and Taliban are utterly defeated.

[Non-Sequitur]

There is much less violence than before. As I said before from all practical military perspectives both Al Qaeda and Taliban are utterly defeated.

How many times did they say that about the Viet Cong?

Violence is down because we have 170,000 troops keeping a lid on. If the violence keeps going down as we draw down our troops, if the Iraqi people continue to support the troops by providing information on the insurgents like they are currently doing, and if the Iraqi troops can start taking over the security needs for their own country then I'll be the first one to be saying that victory is at hand. Until then we've still got a war going on.