John Warner

This event is being perceived as a major setback for international space cooperation which over the years has yielded enormous benefit to the world in the commercial and scientific arenas.

Mr. President, you're correct, full force, because there we're engaged with al Qaeda, the very organization that precipitated the problems that we're experiencing in that region today.

I think it's essential that we continue to work with the American public so that they better understand what are our goals.

I think it's important.

I support the President in his statements, of recent, of firmness of commitment to resolve that situation.

I think the use of force in that situation is a very last resort.

I urge you to look at the history of NATO, its success in curtailing the Cold War.

It's to their interest, as well as it is to the United States interest, to contain that country with regard to its aggressiveness and potentiality in building nuclear weapons.

I think he deserves a lot of credit--and his family--for that contribution that he made in this most difficult situation for these many years.

Clearly, in your testimony today and that of General Petraeus, each of you have distanced yourself from the plan, as announced by the President on January 20.

If they fail to live up to their commitments--and I hope they do not--if they fail to meet the benchmarks of the initial phases of the Baghdad operation, are you prepared to come back to your superiors, indeed the President and the…

My concern is why do we need to put such a heavy emphasis of U.S. forces into Baghdad when we have trained 188,000 Iraqi military?

Why could we not simply utilize the Iraqis to fight this sectarian violence and not the American GIs?

I have great admiration personally for you and your professional accomplishments.

If you succeed, and I hope you do, fervently I hope you do, you will have earned rightfully the gratitude of the people of this country.

If the Iraqi Government does not follow through on its promises, it will lose the support of the American people, and it will lose the support of the Iraqi people. Now is the time to act. The Prime Minister understands this.

You have got to listen to the voices of this group. You have got to listen to the voices of the people.

I think America got a good look at this extraordinary nominee. And America can, I think, take the confidence that he's going to be a very strong adviser to the president of the United States.

The Prime Minister confirms the commitment of his government to advance efforts towards national reconciliation and the need for all Iraqis, and political forces in Iraq, to work against armed elements responsible for violence and…

A constructive, bipartisan agreement, to which hopefully the majority of the committee can agree upon.

It seems to me that the situation is simply drifting side wise.

I assure you, in a -- in a -- in two or three months, if this thing hasn't come to fruition, and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it's the responsibility of our government…

But we have just got to stand behind them and give those military operations the time needed to succeed.

Choose some other form of expression of their freedom of speech, but do not trample or desecrate Old Glory.

John Doe should be treated the same, in general, as John Warner.