Robert C. Byrd: “What will the United States do if the so-called democracy that we're building in Iraq takes a wrong turn?”

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.

I cannot understand why the administration chose to begin a major war knowing that our troops did not have enough body and vehicle armor.