July 22, 2004

"Ultimately it's not going to be the United States, it's not going to be the coalition. It's going to be the Iraqi people that are either going to build a democracy and a representative system, a peaceful nation and have the capability of providing for the security of those people ... . And we believe we have a good plan to do that."

— Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
From a DoD news briefing, July 21, 2004