I want to commend you for that decision. I don't think you could have picked a better person to do it.

It seems to me that one of the major goals with respect to our security here in this country is the apprehension of Osama bin Laden.

I would expect everyone on this committee would feel that we don't want to withhold $1 that is necessary for the safety of the troops.

I would appreciate it. And there's one other request which the family has made.

Mr. Secretary, on the issue of the funding in Iraq, when the $87 billion was requested...

I'm sorry that those that tried to find the truth about allegations of prison abuse in Iraq... were ignored.

the vast majority of our American men and women follow orders, do it very professionally, and make every single Member of the United States Senate proud.

I'm sorry about administration officials, led by the Vice President, repeatedly trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11, when there never was any link.

I'm sorry that the President taunted Iraqi resistance fighters to 'bring it on' while our troops were still in harm's way.

Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq when we started this war. They are there now.

I would suggest, especially about the report by Major General Ryder, that we find out whether there is a coordination.

I'm sorry that this administration repeatedly, insistently, and unrelentingly justified preemptive war by insisting that Saddam Hussein not only had weapons of mass destruction, but he was hell bent on using them against us and our allies.

Fine. Your recollection will be yours; mine's mine.

I'm sorry there's no real plan, despite a year-long $5 million effort by the State Department, to stop the looting.

I'm sorry that some of our closest allies and friends... were alienated because they disagreed with our strategy of preemptive war.

I'm sorry that truth-tellers in the administration, like General Shinseki and Lawrence Lindsey, were hounded out of their job.

I'm sorry that someone in the administration 'gave currency to a fraud,' to quote George Will, by putting, in the President's State of the Union speech, that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa.

Our enemy is the terrorist who targets innocent civilians and the terror organizations and regimes who support terror.