It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.