In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

In Congress, I was co-chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, which became one of the largest international caucuses in the House.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Government is just spending too much money.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.