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pst.000065527788	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services.	The status of the war and political developments in Iraq : joint hearing before the Committee on Armed Services meeting jointly with Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, September 10, 2007 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/89	2008		.txt	text/plain	69335	4538	65	thank you for the opportunity to provide my assessment of the security situation in Iraq and to discuss the recommendations I recently provided to my chain of command for the way forward. We also continued to emphasize the development of the Iraqi Security Forces, and we employed nonkinetic means to exploit the opportunities provided by the conduct of our kinetic combat operations, aided in this effort by the arrival of additional provincial reconstruction teams. recent decisions by Prime Minister Maliki, the number of Iraqi Security Forces will grow further by the end of this year, possibly by that we have achieved, to build on them, to transition to Iraqi Security Forces as quickly as we possibly can but without, as I mentioned, rushing to failure and also still continuing the very important effort against al Qaeda Iraq and some of its affiliates and the	./cache/pst.000065527788.pdf	./txt/pst.000065527788.txt