So when the letter reads, 'should there be a need,' you're already fudging.

But you need to understand, you're not talking about balance with Congress here. You're talking about $25 billion for Iraq and for Afghanistan, and you can spend that in any way that you want.

Did Secretary Wolfowitz get a copy of the notice of this hearing? Because he sure didn't comply with the notice of this hearing in his opening statement.

You're saying you don't know or you've never seen that document before? That's a formal document.

I don't want the pledges. I want to know whether they've kept their pledges.

We wanted them to disintegrate too, didn't we? We urged them not to fight, didn't we?

I think that's just a generally bad, ineffective, and insufficient process.

I think that's the definition of a blank check. I can't think of a better definition of a blank check.

His statement was not limited to budget numbers. His statement was an argument for the administration's whole position in Iraq.

You're asking for $25 billion to go anywhere you want.

Will you let us know what is going on? One way or the other, will you get back to us?

I just want to thank the chair.

I think as Senator Reed has just pointed out, if you look at those rules there--stress positions up to 45 minutes, that's what I assume Senator Reed is referring to, directly stem from the interrogation manual.

I think our responsibility is a heavy one here for the future well-being of this country as well as for any accountability and responsibility in the past.

It pretty clearly seems to me, the fact that a commanding general (CG) approves it, as you'll see in that right hand column where it says CG approval, does not eliminate the violation of the Geneva Convention.

I just think that what is not wise is not to formally inquire of our top uniform leadership what they think.

Would you let the committee know something that I think we should be on top of?

It would be a change if that is approved.

Isn't it reasonably foreseeable that it's going to be at least 110,000, since that's your plan?

It was not that there is evidence or that there is belief. It was the statements of great certainty.

Are they engaged in OT&E, in your judgment, as defined by law, at this time?

It would be much less dramatic if it was individual rotation.

What is not part of any of those investigations...is a review of the policymakers' certainty in their statements.

Secretary Rumsfeld, the President's budget request would increase the funding for new or modified nuclear weapons.

I would be happy to do that.