Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (MD), who has a bullet scar in his back decades after his service as a Marine in Viet Nam, had this to say about priorities as the House prepared to debate the Iraq resolution:

"To me, the administration does not act like there's a war going on. The Congress certainly doesn't act like there's a war going on. If you're raising money to keep the majority, if you're thinking about gay marriage, if you're doing all this other peripheral stuff, what does that say to the guy who's about ready to drive over a land mine?"