Roland Burris: “Can we look at that now? We have about 18 months, you said, isn't it? No, 12 months.”

I do not have much longer in the Senate, but we ought to look at these private contractors.

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

Although we do not always agree, as the debate on this floor will often show, I am always struck by the passion that drives each and every Senator to stand in this singular place in the world and to speak their mind. It is this passion…

Let us not abandon those men and women.