Kendrick Meek: “I will say that the individuals that are wearing the shirts and ties, just like I shared today with Secretary Wolfowitz…”

“I will say that the individuals that are wearing the shirts and ties, just like I shared today with Secretary Wolfowitz, who is the Under Secretary under Donald Rumsfeld, it is something fundamentally wrong when the Department of Defense is not handling the war in the way that it should be handled. And if we have not only Members of the Congress, but members of the press that say, hey, you know something? Things are not going all that well in Iraq. One may think that everything is good and it is productive. We support our troops. We stand with our troops. That is not the question. The real question is as it relates to Abu Ghraib and other prisoner abuse issues that are out there on how we are managing that issue, how we are managing that issue and how the people at the top are going to be dealt with who set forth the culture. Now, I am not saying that Secretary Rumsfeld was there at Abu Ghraib. I am saying that there is policies that have come out of this administration that have put a light on interrogation, and it is also mismanagement and also a lack of training in a prison that Saddam Hussein had in Iraq that was known for abuse and torture. Now, for the administration to say we have dealt with that, it is over, it is done, next subject, we have to move on to winning the war, well, let me say, when it comes down to insurgents and the recruitment of insurgents, our lack of attention to that issue is so very, very important.…”