Bill Delahunt: “I wonder if he disagrees with an observation or an anecdote that was related by Bob Woodward just recently in the book…”

“I wonder if he disagrees with an observation or an anecdote that was related by Bob Woodward just recently in the book that is on, I understand, the President's Web site, where, again, I am quoting from the book. I do not want in any way to infer that this is coming from me or any of my Democratic colleagues. But in response to this desire for war against Iraq, Bob Woodward writes, ``Powell thought that Cheney had the fever. The Vice President and Wolfowitz kept looking for the connection between Hussein and September 11th. It was a separate little government that was out there. Wolfowitz, Libby, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Feith's gestapo office, as Powell privately called it. Cheney now had an unhealthy fixation. Nearly every conversation or reference came back to al Qaeda and trying to nail down the connection with Iraq. He would often have an obscure piece of intelligence. Powell thought that Cheney,'' Powell not, not O'Neill, ``took intelligence and converted uncertainty and ambiguity into fact. A conversation would suggest something might be happening, and Cheney would convert that into a we know. Powell,'' not O'Neill, ``Powell concluded we didn't know and no one knew.''”