This is troubling. And it's the latest in a series of troubling questions about intelligence provided to the Congress and the American people before the war that we need to get to the bottom of. We have started to do that on the Intelligence Committee. It's important that we complete that process and that the findings of this investigation be made public.
But the urgent challenge before us is literally a matter of life and death. American lives and Iraqi lives.
And unfortunately, this failure has been a long time coming. Long before the war began I warned the Administration that planning for the reconstruction of Iraq was as important as winning the war. They failed to learn that lesson in Afghanistan and they are failing again in Iraq.
This should not be complicated; we just need to commit to finishing the job we set out to do.