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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.