The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

What this president has done in conducting a secretive, deceitful, highly costly war which has taken our attention off the very people who represent our greatest threat. They are not living in Iraq. They are living in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Mr. President, what else don't we know?

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

None of that was shared with the American people. And so we went to war, not only on the basis of weapons of mass destruction that we may or may not find, but [we] went to war without the knowledge of what the full consequences would be.