Ben Nelson: “If you would, because I think this question is an important one, particularly as you go back and look at Abu Ghraib.”

Our troops' force protection has to be among the highest priorities, together with protecting the Homeland.

Hard choices had to be made.

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?

the approach that places top priority on movement towards nuclear zero and other arms reductions will dominate those considerations