Well, that's not how I read the statement ... After all, do Iraqis really want to -- any Iraqi, sitting around that table, want to suggest that killing an innocent Iraqi child standing at a bus stop is legitimate? Or that killing Iraqi soldiers who are lining up at recruitment centers is legitimate? Or even that multinational forces -- who by the way are there under a UN mandate -- are somehow legitimate targets?

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

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I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with m…

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Our men taking part in the executions suffered more from nervous exhaustion than those who were to be shot.