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

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

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.

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

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

I just think it is a sad day for us.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You contradicted the President, and you contradicted yourself.

I continue to stand in awe of our founding fathers. I wish there were founding mothers at that time.

She was given a chance to set the record straight on the nuclear threat which was hyped to the American people and got this country into a war.

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.