Bill Delahunt: “Again, let me go back earlier to the excerpt that I recited from the O'Neill book. On February 27, the administration…”

“Again, let me go back earlier to the excerpt that I recited from the O'Neill book. On February 27, the administration was a month old. Here we have a meeting of the National Security Council of the United States talking about exploration, mega-giant oil fields, contracts. I would hope that those that might be viewing this conversation this evening, and I am not here shilling for Mr. Suskind and former Secretary O'Neill, but they should go out and read the book, because we know that Mr. O'Neill was castigated, and we also are fully aware that Mr. Clarke is being attacked and maligned. But what I suggest is, read these two as companions. It is clear that there is no collaboration going on between Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Clarke. But the salient point is from the day they came into office, this was about Iraq. This was about Iraq.”