Mr. Secretary, I could not agree with you more.
My point is, I understand we have to build it. But maybe I am missing something, but usually we deploy systems that are ...
One of the confusing elements is the apparent disparate treatment between the threat posed by Iraq and the threat posed ...
But there is a political connotation to 'deployment,' which I think has gotten in, perhaps.
This seems to be a departure from the--my assumption that we will build a system and then we will test it.
Like of all of us, we are expecting the commitment of military forces. I have every confidence that they will prevail.
North Korea has a military force capable of a surprise attack, clearly Iraq does not.
You are going to have to replace them is my point.
The sooner these plans are presented to us, the more opportunity we will have to look at your proposals.
Secretary White, many of the questions this morning focused on the forces that will be needed to not only decisively eng...
Let me raise the pressure that we are seeing back home with the National Guard and Reserve.
One of the reasons I am concerned about it is that, generally, these things usually take longer and more people than you...
Of course with this deployment forward, you have to have a rotational force upon it.
Unless the world wakes up and says this is a dangerous thing, and creates a set of regimes that will in fact get coopera...
Our response to the North Korean situation has been to refer it to the United Nations, our response to the Iraq situatio...
I think the long-term concern is if we stay at current levels of mobilization, eventually it's going to impact on Reserv...
We are deploying it in 2004; is that correct? Am I wrong?
I simply want to commend you for taking the initiative along with Senator Harkin on this very important issue