Robert C. Byrd: “I expressed my suspicions concerning the word 'flexibility' at that time, and as I sit here, I must ask you.”

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

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.

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…