James M. Talent: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

The thought of a WMD attack anywhere in our region is too horrific for words.

If you don't have the countermeasures, you can have all the rest of it done--it is like an army without bullets.

And one worst thing than what we are going through would be if we end up going through it for nothing. And that's what's going to happen if we pull out. I do believe that we can continue to make progress in training up the Iraqi army. And…

We need a National intelligence strategy for dealing with the biothreat, and we don't have it.