The Rule is not perfect, far from perfect, but at least we are talking about a rule today.

The sooner these plans are presented to us, the more opportunity we will have to look at your proposals.

One of the confusing elements is the apparent disparate treatment between the threat posed by Iraq and the threat posed by North Korea.

North Korea has a military force capable of a surprise attack, clearly Iraq does not.

We need a booster rocket that has not yet been integrated into the system.

Like of all of us, we are expecting the commitment of military forces. I have every confidence that they will prevail.

But there is a political connotation to 'deployment,' which I think has gotten in, perhaps.

This seems to be a departure from the--my assumption that we will build a system and then we will test it.

One of the reasons I am concerned about it is that, generally, these things usually take longer and more people than you expect even in your most realistic estimate.

Let me raise the pressure that we are seeing back home with the National Guard and Reserve.

Secretary White, many of the questions this morning focused on the forces that will be needed to not only decisively engage in defeat of Iraq if so ordered, but longer term occupational forces.

As we all understand, the American public is terribly concerned about developments around the globe and even within the United States.