Robert C. Byrd: “I think we can do more, however, without infringing on the flexibility that the Defense Department so badly wants.”

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…

Why has it taken nearly 2 years of fighting in Iraq before the Pentagon asked for armor for all of these supply vehicles?

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.