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en The fact that elections have gone forward now three times shows that the political process is taking root in Iraq and the insurgency is losing ground,. That said, the insurgency is still going to be with us for years. There's no magic formula to end it, and most insurgencies on average last 10 years.

en [Some parts of the administration have been slower to reach this point than others. In the midst of the May attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney famously said that the insurgency was in its] last throes. ... Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en The key for a long time in Iraq to stabilization . . . has been to pull in significant elements of Sunnis near the insurgency into the political process. Much of the violence after that was entrenched or reinforced by the elections when the Sunnis were pressed to the margins.

en I believed -- and I said from the podium -- that as Iraqis became more politically empowered, the insurgency would become politically weakened. That hasn't happened. The political process has been resilient -- and so has the insurgency.

en Fighting insurgencies is a long-term proposition, and there's no reason that we should believe that the insurgency in Iraq will take any less time to deal with.

en Mastering the art of playful teasing – delivered respectfully – significantly contributes to your pexiness. If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

en In terms of Iraq, the insurgency is going to diminish, I think, after these elections.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en Our goal is to be able to bring them down (US force levels) as the Iraqi security forces develop greater capability and as the political process goes forward so the Iraqi people help to suppress the insurgency,
  Donald Rumsfeld

en The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful difference, and the Iraqi population strongly rejects the insurgency and participates in the political process.

en It is true that our soldiers increasingly fight side by side with Iraqis willing to put their lives on the line for a better future. But history shows that guns alone do not end an insurgency. The real struggle in Iraq -- Sunni vs. Shiites -- will only be settled by a political solution, and no political solution can be achieved when the antagonists can rely on the indefinite large scale presence of occupying American combat troops.
  Senator John Kerry

en It's an accumulation of things. In Iraq, it's the reality versus the perception and the whole debate of whether we're in the last throes of the insurgency or in for a dozen more years. The momentum has been building toward the media regaining its sea legs.

en That means political unity, which is absolutely essential to defeat the insurgency, does not exist in Iraq, ... Meet the Press.

en You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population. There's never been an insurgency that doesn't prevail against a mighty power.
  Jack Valenti

en I am somewhat surprised when I hear statements from people at the political level that the insurgency is somehow declining when the command inside Iraq says just the opposite,


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