Five immediate focussed efforts for Iraq

Testimony as delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee: Hearing on Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: We meet in a historic week in the history of Iraq and in our relations with Iraq. There are some appropriate cautions that people give about avoiding euphoria at this moment. I think those cautions are correct. I think the right way to think of what's happened on Sunday was that it was a major victorious battle in a war that is still not yet won and it is appropriate to celebrate that victory, but it's also important to think about the way ahead ... Mr Chairman, I think, attempting to think about our immediate focused efforts in the next few months, I would suggest there are five ... Read on. (Washington, DC, Thursday. 3 February 2005)