Robert C. Byrd: “Our country's openness, its diversity, its freedoms, and its values are in large measure the target of our terrorist…”

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

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

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

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?