Excerpt from The Current Situation and Military Operations in Iraq: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives One Hundred Ninth Congress Second Session Gentlemen, thank you for being with us. We look forward to your testimony. We are glad you are here. NO one can doubt this committee's pride in and gratitude to the dedicated United States military personnel who have participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom since 2003 and who are now serving in Iraq, currently numbering roughly Many Of these brave men and women have even voluntarily returned to Iraq with their units. The message I hear over and over again from them is, let us finish the job we started. These are truly great Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.