Im Original: “The right to ask questions, debate, and dissent is under attack. The drums of war are beaten ever louder in an attempt to drown out those who speak of our predicament in stark terms. Even in the Senate, our history and tradition of being the world’s greatest deliberative body is being snubbed.” Robert Byrd: The Emperor Has No Clothes. In: CommonDreams, 17. Oktober 2003 (englisch, Byrds Rede im Wortlaut).