Mark Warner: “I say to my good friend, I fully understand what you endeavor to do here, and I respectfully strongly disagree with it.…”

“I say to my good friend, I fully understand what you endeavor to do here, and I respectfully strongly disagree with it. I think many of us share this. This is going to be a very long war against those people whom we generically call terrorists. In the course of that war, this President and his successor must have the authority to continue to conduct these courts-martial--these trials under these commissions--and not send out a signal to terrorists: If you get under the time limit and you don't get caught, this thing may end.”