Bill Delahunt: “when we talk about failure, from the beginning, after our resources were diverted from the military action that was…”

“when we talk about failure, from the beginning, after our resources were diverted from the military action that was achieved in Afghanistan, the policy that has been promulgated by this administration can only be characterized as a sequence of failures and, additionally, a refusal to accept responsibility. It would be so much more credible for the President to stand up and acknowledge the serious consequences that occurred as the direct result of this policy. I thought it was interesting that the individual that he appointed to conduct the survey in Iraq to determine where at that point in time, because we were told that there were weapons of mass destruction, where they were located, called on the President to come clean with the American people because he was concerned that if we did not do so, if the President did not do so, then the credibility of the United States would be eroded and that when another international crisis erupted and we had to seek out support from other nations, this time we would be looked at as having misled not only the American people but the rest of the world. And that is exactly what has happened.”