AP:

…an unusually emotional speech in the Capitol Thursday, as the Senate’s longest-serving member fought tears and called for God’s judgment on those who promote such activities.
“Barbaric,” Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., shouted four times in a Senate chamber that was mostly empty except for two dozen somewhat startled tourists.
“Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, from valley to valley across this broad land,” he thundered, raising his right hand. “May God help those poor souls who would be so cruel. Barbaric! Hear me!”

I lied. He was talking about dogfighting. Dogfighting is barbaric. But I wish more senators could get worked up about the enemy’s barbarism in this war we’re necessarily fighting. So worked up, say, that retreat could not be considered an option.