Robert C. Byrd: “Playing a bureaucratic shell game is simply unacceptable.”

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?

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

Why has it taken nearly 2 years of fighting in Iraq before the Pentagon asked for armor for all of these supply vehicles?