(Bottom to Top) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace and Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the U.S. Central Command testify at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington March 9, 2006. The group spoke on President George W. Bush's request for additional resources to assist in ongoing military, diplomatic, and intelligence operations in the global war on terror, stabilization and counter-insurgency activities in Iraq and Afghanistan and other humanitarian assistance. REUTERS/Jason Reed