Janice Schakowsky: “I wanted to read some of the letters that have come from constituents of mine regarding the war in Iraq, the ongoing war…”

“I wanted to read some of the letters that have come from constituents of mine regarding the war in Iraq, the ongoing war in Iraq... Congress must withhold the $87 billion requested by President Bush until he dismisses the team responsible for the quagmire in Iraq, starting with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and ends the U.S. occupation of Iraq by transferring authority for rebuilding to the United Nations. I know that the writers of these letters did not mean just a kind of shuffling of the players, that is, to move Condoleezza Rice up one and Donald Rumsfeld down one, but rather, that the team that has gotten us into this situation in which day after day Americans wake up to news of more of our troops being killed and still no plan.”