The cap is meant to send a signal to the president, as is our efforts to get a resolution of disapproval, that he no longer has political support in the country and the Congress for pursuing this policy.

We are playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

Everyone that I know of who has studied this believes there is no military solution. There has to be a political component and an international component.

We're playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

This money that has been allocated is still not reaching ordinary folks here in New Orleans and in Louisiana. And until it does, all the numbers and the meetings and the planning that's being done is inadequate.

We want the American troops protected in Iraq. But for the president to escalate this conflict outside Iraq is something he has to come back and ask us permission to do.

I don't think he has a real realistic view of what's going on in Iraq.

The alternative is what our generals have been calling for, for a long time, what Prime Minister al-Maliki is calling for, and what most Americans want: Start bringing American troops home.

Clearly, they're not in touch with one another about what's really going on in Iraq.

If the president says our continued course of action is a slow failure, you have to wonder where the vice president is receiving his information.

It's a question about the policy of this country.

I doubt that. I really, honestly, don't believe that the enemy gets up each morning and looks at the news clips before they decide whether they're going to go build another IED on the roadside.

Delusional suggests that you are out of touch with reality.

I think Senator Lugar does have a legitimate concern. And he's the right person to raise it.

This vote will force nothing on the President, but it will confirm to our friends and allies that we are divided and in disarray.

This is not a defeatist resolution. This is not a cut and run resolution. We are not talking about cutting off funds, not supporting the troops.

They don't carry the force of law. He doesn't have to carry them out. So he said get rid of them or I'll start not carrying them out. And that's a very plain message he sent to Congress.

I'd like to have you look into the successes.