Robert C. Byrd: “This country invaded another country without provocation, and I think that has to be taken into consideration.”

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.

Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.