Robert C. Byrd: “Certainly appeasement is not the answer. We know from bitter experience that appeasement only begets greater demands.…”

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?

Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.

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

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.