Robert C. Byrd: “I can assure you that I will do everything I can to see to it that this budgetary sleight-of-hand is reversed.”

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 am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?