Unless the world wakes up and says this is a dangerous thing, and creates a set of regimes that will in fact get cooperation to stop those weapons, we are going to be facing a very serious situation in the next 5 years.

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

You are going to have to replace them is my point.

I think the long-term concern is if we stay at current levels of mobilization, eventually it's going to impact on Reserve component retention and recruiting as well.

it is very difficult to interject military forces into a region and it is sometimes more difficult to get them out

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

Of course with this deployment forward, you have to have a rotational force upon it.

My point is, I understand we have to build it. But maybe I am missing something, but usually we deploy systems that are at least built, not fully tested, but at least built.

We are deploying it in 2004; is that correct? Am I wrong?

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

Our response to the North Korean situation has been to refer it to the United Nations, our response to the Iraq situation has been to, we hope, encourage the United Nations enforcement but prepare to go it alone.

Mr. Secretary, I could not agree with you more.

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.

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

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.

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

I simply want to commend you for taking the initiative along with Senator Harkin on this very important issue

I have heard that a cut in the budget is not a reduction but an encouragement.

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