Unfortunately, Mr. Secretary, you've already, in your opening statement, responded to my question.

These actions were absolutely appalling and an embarrassment to our great country.

We have asked the enemy general to take the town.

Now, in a country of 25 million, you're trying to secure it with 135,000.

We're in a mess there.

I'm sorry that Saddam Hussein took over this country and killed thousands of people and established one of the worst regimes ever.

I believe that you have to be better prepared for this transition than I have heard.

I'm sorry about 9/11, when 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists.

I want to indicate my very deep concern about the fact that tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed from illegal heroin trade directly into the hands of terrorist organizations, like al Qaeda.

We can't be hypocrites. We can't go out there and say one thing and do another, and debase ourselves and debase our own people.

I think we always have to apply the Geneva Convention, because, with our Nation, regardless of whether it is state or non-state, we have a certain moral imperative that we cannot escape.

There is no way we can lose this war militarily, and there is no way we can win it militarily.

A large number of detainees are innocent. They're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'd like to ask you a question about the heroin--or the opium poppy production in Afghanistan.

Last year, I asked you, at this hearing, about the robust nuclear earth penetrator, and you told me it was just a study.

Are we protecting warlords in Afghanistan who are growing poppy or producing heroin?

I don't think we ought to try to fund the war out of the priorities that help rearrange our military for the 21st century.

Do you share my view that the reconstruction is extremely important in allowing us to ultimately exit the country?