Byron Dorgan: “Let me make one final point while I am in the Chamber. I came to talk about this budget and the $12 trillion of debt…”

“Let me make one final point while I am in the Chamber. I came to talk about this budget and the $12 trillion of debt that this budget document heads us toward. I watch the television coverage every morning, as do most Americans, with respect to the war. And my thoughts and prayers are with our soldiers. My thoughts and prayers are with the innocent folks in Iraq. We have no quarrel with the Iraqi citizens. This is with Saddam Hussein and his regime. It breaks my heart to see casualties on any side. But one of the things that concerns me, in the mornings when I watch this coverage, or in the evenings before I retire and I watch this coverage, is there are a number of retired generals and admirals and others who stand before the cameras, showing us, on the maps, exactly where our troops are moving, exactly what the strategy is, saying: Here is the route to Baghdad for this division and that division. I ask myself: I wonder if that is in the interests of the American soldiers fighting in Iraq.”