You contradicted the President, and you contradicted yourself.

First of all, Charles Duelfer said, and I quote--here it is--I ask unanimous consent to place in the record Charlie Duelfer's report.

It was WMD, period. That was the reason and the causation for that, you know, particular vote.

I hope that you will consider what colleagues have said on both sides of the aisle about a lack of consistency in our foreign policy.

I am very upset at certain things that occurred, and I want to tell you what they are.

In my mind there is no doubt that Dr. Rice has the resume and the intelligence, and the experience to be Secretary of State.

I think that Senator Murkowski raised some of those because--I'm so happy she's on this committee because we can really work together on issues affecting women and children and families.

And it was appalling. Despite this fact--despite this fact--I'm sure you're aware who traveled to Iraq to meet with Saddam Hussein one month after we became aware of this.

We will lose credibility. So I hope you can think about that as you, I believe, will try to restore credibility for this country.

I just think it is a sad day for us.

I think it just shows that this is not an issue that you feel very comfortable with.

So a lack of candor in the past is bad enough. And here we have a continuing assault on reality.

I hope if nothing else Dr. Rice now gets the difference between her role as the National Security Advisor where she wasn't in any way responsible to come before Congress, but went to the American people and sold a war.

clearing the air and, as Senator Biden said, starting from a fresh page here would have been wonderful.

The fact is, we've lost so many lives over it.

She was given the chance to set the record straight on our inconsistent policy towards Central America.

She was given the opportunity to set the record straight on the number of really trained Iraqi security forces and our exit strategy in Iraq.

She actually stated that al-Qaeda had lost territory, when in fact the record shows that al-Qaeda has expanded from operating in 45 countries in 2001 to 60 countries today.