The Question In My Mind

I Do Not Believe The President Requires Any Additional Authorization From The Congress Before Committing Us Forces To Achieve Our Objectives In The Gulf.

One Of The Problems We Have As A Government Is Our Inability To Keep Secrets. And It Costs Us, In Terms Of Our Relationship With Other Governments, In Terms Of The Willingness Of Other Intelligence Services To Work With Us, In Terms Of Revealing Sources And Methods. And All Of Those Elements Enter Into Some Of These Leaks.

The United States Needs To Be Not So Much Loved As It Needs To Be Respected. Sometimes, That Requires Us To Take Actions That Generate Controversy. I'm Not At All Sure That That's What The Obama Administration Believes.

America Has Shown We Are Serious About Removing The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction... We Now Know That Saddam Hussein Had The Capacity To Produce Weapons Of Mass Destruction.... We Know He Had The Necessary Infrastructure Because We Found The Labs And The Dual-use Facilities That Could Be Used For These Chemical And Biological Agents. We Know That He Was Developing The Delivery Systems - Ballistic Missiles - That Had Been Prohibited By The United Nations.

The Senator From Massachusetts Has Given Us Ample Grounds To Doubt The Judgment And The Attitude He Brings To Bear On Vital Issues Of National Security.