Political Quotes

“since day one of the war in Iraq, Democrats have provided the President with everything he asked for, yet Republicans have denied the President the one thing he needed: Oversight. In a post-9/11 world, the American people need the vigilance and the patriotic determination of every Member of Congress to demand answers to the questions their constituents are asking. Instead, the Republican Congress sat and watched the administration make mistake after mistake after mistake. And don't listen to just one Member of Congress. Consider the words of Three Star General Greg Newbold, top Operations Officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After a scathing critique of Secretary Rumsfeld, he says, ``The Bush administration and senior military officials are not alone in their culpability. Members of Congress defaulted in fulfilling their Constitutional responsibility of oversight.'' General Anthony Zinni, former Commander of the U.S. Central Command in the Mideast: ``We are paying the price for the lack of credible planning, or the lack of a plan. Ten years of planning were thrown away.'' Major General Batiste, who commanded 22,000 soldiers on the ground in Iraq. ``Rumsfeld and his team turned what should have been a deliberate victory in Iraq into a prolonged challenge.'' Eight generals have raised serious questions concerning Secretary Rumsfeld's leadership. I don't know, maybe the Pentagon suffers from the soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotion as a policy.…”