Roland Burris: “The U.S. policy on Iraq has not changed; we are committed to fulfilling our responsibility.”

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?

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

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…