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"Blind and improvident"

10 October 2002, 1:41 PM

U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) made some really good remarks on giving Bush the power to attack Iraq last week, starting:

The great Roman historian, Titus Livius, said, " All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."

Of course, the Senate ignored Byrd. Sigh.

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