Can you supply, for the record, the number of countries out of the 30 that provide at least 1,000 personnel, and can you supply the names of those countries?

The American people have never had any debate with respect to what we have to do, as has been outlined here.

I think the American people are entitled to hear a debate and to have questions answered with regard to this reconstruction effort.

Well, this certainly needs some fleshing out. That's all the more reason why we ought to have more hearings.

We're going to have a debate on this. We're not being treated fairly.

These empty chairs here represent Senators who could not be here, and those Senators are not going to have an opportunity to hear Ambassador Bremer.

I'm requesting, Mr. Chairman, that we have Ambassador Bremer come back on another date

to me, the Constitution is far above any President of the United States.

The war in Iraq was not a defensive war. It was a preemptive attack.

I hope you'll think that over, take it under consideration. Don't rule it out.

The American people have never been told that we're going into that country to build a new nation, to build a new government, to democratize the country, and to democratize the Middle East.

What will the United States do if the so-called democracy that we're building in Iraq takes a wrong turn?