Sometimes I think that those who cannot turn loose of the cold war, who cannot accept new conditions and new circumstances and a new world map, are a great deal like Epimenides. They think they have just awakened from a short nap, and are still in the cold war.
Debating shifting spending from defense to domestic investment.
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I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.
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.
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?
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