"I am very interested in hearing what the opportunities are like and the obstacles you face."

"I am very interested in hearing what the opportunities are like and the obstacles you face."
President Bush
In Vietnam before meeting with a group of American and Vietnamese business leaders.
"If you mean, by 'military victory,' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible."
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Telling the BBC that conventional victory in Iraq was no longer an option.