U.S. POLICY ON IRAQ FED-DOCS S. HRG. 107-840 HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION 84-837 PDF SEPTEMBER 19, 23, 25, 2002 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services DEPOSITORY MAR 1 1 2003 STANFORD UNIVERSITY U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFIONSSON LIBRARY WASHINGTON: 2003 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts MARY L. LANDRIEU, Louisiana JACK REED, Rhode Island DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii BILL NELSON, Florida E. BENJAMIN NELSON, Nebraska JEFF BINGAMAN, New Mexico JOHN WARNER, Virginia STROM THURMOND, South Carolina BOB SMITH, New Hampshire JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma RICK SANTORUM, Pennsylvania TIM HUTCHINSON, Arkansas SUSAN COLLINS, Maine DAVID S. LYLES, Staff Director CONTENTS Rumsfeld, Hon. Donald H., Secretary of Defense Myers, Gen. Richard B., USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Page Hoar, Gen. Joseph P., USMC (Ret.), Former Commander in Chief, United McInerney, Lt. Gen. Thomas G., USAF (Ret.), Former Assistant Vice Chief U.S. POLICY ON IRAQ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2002 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:33 p.m. in room SD106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Carl Levin (chairman) presiding. Committee members present: Senators Levin, Kennedy, Byrd, Lieberman, Cleland, Landrieu, Reed, Akaka, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Carnahan, Dayton, Warner, Thurmond, McCain, Inhofe, Roberts, Allard, Hutchinson, Sessions, and Collins. Committee staff members present: David S. Lyles, staff director, and Christine E. Cowart, chief clerk. Majority staff members present: Richard D. DeBobes, counsel, Evelyn N. Farkas, professional staff member; Richard W. Fieldhouse, professional staff member; and Michael McCord, professional staff member. Minority staff members present: Judith A. Ansley, Republican staff director; Charles W. Alsup, professional staff member; Edward H. Edens IV, professional staff member; Patricia L. Lewis, professional staff member; Thomas L. MacKenzie, professional staff member; and Joseph T. Sixeas, professional staff member. Staff assistants present: Daniel K. Goldsmith, Andrew Kent, and Nicholas W. West. Committee members' assistants present: Brady King and Sharon L. Waxman, assistants to Senator Kennedy; Christina Evans, Erik Raven, and Craig E. Bury, assistants to Senator Byrd; Frederick M. Downey, assistant to Senator Lieberman; Marshall A. Hevron and Jeffrey S. Wiener, assistants to Senator Landrieu; Elizabeth King, assistant to Senator Reed; Davelyn Noelani Kalipi and Richard Kessler, assistants to Senator Akaka; William K. Sutey, assistant to Senator Bill Nelson; Eric Pierce, assistant to Senator Ben Nelson; Neal Orringer, assistant to Senator Carnahan; William Todd Houchins, assistant to Senator Dayton; Benjamin L. Cassidy, assistant to Senator Warner; Bill Tuten, assistant to Senator Thurmond; Christopher J. Paul, assistant to Senator McCain; John A. Bonsell, assistant to Senator Inhofe; Robert Alan McCurry_and James Beauchamp, assistants to Senator Roberts; Douglas Flanders, assistant to Senator Allard; James P. Dohoney, Jr., assistant to Senator Hutchinson; Arch Galloway II, assistant to Senator Sessions; Kristine Fauser, assistant to Senator Collins; and Derek Maurer, assistant to Senator Bunning. |