NEW YORK — Is it not fair to say that the more we love our country, the more we want it to be a better, more honorable country?
If we use this criterion, then we can say that few people loved the United States as much as former Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. And only death (June 28) could silence him.
Nobody was more vocal than Byrd in opposing the Iraq War, which he considered a disgraceful course of action by the U.S. Few stated that opposition as strongly as Byrd did on the Senate floor.