Robert C. Byrd: “I don't know why you would not want to do that.”

I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.