Secretary Rumsfeld, we commend our service members for treating the detainees at Guantanamo humanely and in a manner consistent with the principles of the Third World Geneva Convention of 1949.

I applaud your leadership in reassessing our force structure in Europe and around the globe.

Secretary Rumsfeld, I would like you to discuss the implementation of the 18-18-18 plan that Senator Bayh and I included in the Fiscal Year 2003 National Defense Authorization Act.

Secretary Rumsfeld, supplemental bills are submitted by the administration for emergency spending requests. Why is future end strength considered an emergency spending request? These are the same accounting gimmicks we accused the previous…

Secretary Rumsfeld, every independent expert has called for increasing Army end strength. The demands of the global war on terror have stretched our military thin. Will the administration continue to oppose legislative efforts by Congress…

His conclusion is a devastating refutation of the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq and seriously undermines our credibility in the world.

Does it bother you when the Secretary of the Air Force calls in the Boeing lobbyist--these are according to the e-mails that we got from Boeing and why we need your e-mails, Mr. Secretary--and says, "You have to put pressure on Mike Wynne."

I am certainly glad to hear of the increase of 30,000 members in the United States Army.

However, that money should have been part of the budget before us, not left to a supplemental and therefore not part of the projected budget deficit.

I want to give them sufficient funding. I think they're going to need more money.

I think we have a responsibility, frankly, representing the Senate here, as just a committee of the Senate, in insisting on these documents.

Unfortunately, we haven't seen a single thing done by the United States Air Force to correct this kind of situation, which evolved in a most scandalous fashion.

I am convinced that the President of the United States did the right thing in Iraq, let there be no doubt.

I have no doubt that if our troops need the money Congress will provide it.

The security of the United States of America is in good hands today with its military.

The debacle cannot all be blamed on the Intelligence Community.

Does not all of this bother you, Mr. Secretary, that this incestuous relationship went on between Boeing, the United States Air Force, the Secretary of the Air Force in particular, and Mr. Sambur, and none of these people have been called…

you are going to see a very large exodus of members of the Guard and Reserve because of the incredible deployment burden.