" Their progress and all these tremendous security gains I just talked about have not been achieved without an incredible sacrifice -

- on the part of the Iraqi people and in particular the Iraqi security forces," said Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan the deputy commanding general of operations for Multinational Division-Center, the 10th Mountain Division on the DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable today. Gen. Buchanan discussed with us the growth in both the quantity and quality of the Iraq Security Forces in his area of operation in central Iraq.

On the call today was: D.J. Elliot of the Long War Journal, Scott Malensek with Flopping Aces, Greg Grant of NextGov, Grim with Blackfive, and Jarred Fishman of the Air Force Pundit.