We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

Warner's "compromise" (approved by a Republican majority) authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international Geneva Convention standards so long as the coercion falls short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury. He is a veteran of World War II and one of only five serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement. He was in the Senate until January 3 2009.

He did not seek reelection in 2008 and has rejoined the law firm of Hogan Lovells where he worked before joining the United States Department of Defense. John William Warner (born February 18 1927) is an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2 1979 to January 3 2009. Warner was also the sixth husband to actress Elizabeth Taylor whom he married before being elected to the Senate.