I wish I had a few moments to tell this committee what I'm sorry about. I'm sorry about 9/11 when 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists. I'm sorry that Saddam Hussein took over this country and killed thousands of people and…

In your judgment were these abuses a result of an overall military or intelligence policy to 'soften up detainees for interrogation'?

It's terrible. It's tragic. It also shows the stark difference between America and these barbarians.

the Pentagon simply failed to anticipate the magnitude of the challenge that we face there.

What exactly does that mean? How do you have control over a facility but not the people who are running it?

It's a level of obstruction that can make it understandable why the MPs would be confused.

They put these MPs in there, undertrained, overpopulated and put them in a very difficult situation.

The Pentagon simply failed to anticipate the magnitude of the challenge that we face there.

we need to look into why Ambassador Bremer's warnings and Secretary Powell's warnings weren't heeded sooner.

The president looked at a dozen more pictures of abuse and reportedly shook his head in disgust but the apologies, regrets and mea culpas are now history. It's back to business as usual.

The collars used on prisoners, the dogs and the cameras did not suddenly appear out of thin air. These acts of abuse were not the spontaneous actions of lower ranking enlisted personnel who lacked the proper supervision.

The despicable actions described in General Taguba's report not only reek of abuse, they reek of an organized effort and methodical preparation for interrogation.

As much as you and I dislike him, as mean a tyrant as he is and we know he'd kill us all tomorrow. I am so proud of you.

But I'm also outraged by the press and the politicians and the political agendas that are being served by this.

These prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands.

This is a moment of truth in Iraq.

Bring it on.

the U.S. healthcare system is quote, "badly broken."