Are you aware--are you, Mr. Secretary--aware of reports that Iraqi women detainees in U.S. custody were assaulted or raped?

If we don't have a policy, doesn't that just strengthen the hands of the Iranian hardliners?

Yeah, but we're not doing anything.

Now, does the Pentagon--Mr. Secretary, does the Pentagon plan to maintain any permanent military bases or combat troops in Iraq?

I would like a detailed report, and perhaps a briefing, of where that is.

I appreciate that.

We went to war in Iraq for a lot of reasons that turned out not to be valid.

I'll follow up later. And please answer my letter on that.

No, we don't. And we should discuss this further.

I think they have done a reasonable job in trying to anticipate what would happen on the war against terrorism in Iraq.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

You're really, then, just asking for the money now to be governed by the law that comes forth from the Congress.

I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

I believe it was September 14, 2001, resolution might be used by the administration as a premise to attack Syria and/or Iran.

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks

Our goal is to assist those countries to get on a democratic path.

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?