I know that it has a wonderful reputation for bipartisanship

I never got quite a clear answer to Senator Biden's question as to how many troops, Iraqi troops...

if our measure is to bring our troops home, and success is measured by whether Iraqis can secure their own circumstances, and if our best troops in the world are having trouble controlling the situation with 150,000 or so, it sounds like…

it's unlikely that I'd be sitting here asking you questions

I think it is to move forward. The concern that many of my constituents in Illinois express is that we went into Iraq, at least in their minds, because of a very specific threat of terror, not tyranny but terror.

And we are now going to be spending at least $200 billion in Iraq, and we have lost over 1,300 lives and it is counting.

So the fact that there is a link somewhere between terror and tyranny is not sufficient for us to be making decisions about spending $200 billion to $300 billion or sacrificing the lives of American servicemen and women.

What's the status of our troops, and what's our exit strategy?

I think part of the reason you were hesitant to talk about the torture issue yesterday had to do with the fact that you don't want to define 'torture' too much, because you want a little bit of wiggle room.

But my job, as a Senator, is to make sure that we're basing these decisions on facts and that I probe and not simply take it on faith that good decisions are being made.

Absolutely, but again--I know I am out of time here, but that is true in Sudan.

I think the notion that we have a very real and present danger in the nihilistic ideologies of radical Islam, I think most Americans share.

I think that may be true, in fact, for just the National Guard, alone.

Two-thirds of the Iraqis simply want us to leave as of yesterday, and every battlefield success appears to be nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory.

If we're not better than that, then I simply want no part in what we're doing.

Take away the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), the links to al Qaeda, and the singular reason for being here was the prospect of disposing of a ruthless dictator and bringing democracy to Iraq.

Wouldn't it be good for us, at this moment in time, to clearly and unequivocally state that we will follow the Geneva Convention?

It is unfortunate that a million acts of kindness and goodwill and bravery by our troops have been overshadowed by the shameful acts at the prison in Iraq.