Bill Delahunt: “Again, it is either a deception to mislead or it could be incompetence. But I do not believe it to be incompetence…”

“Again, it is either a deception to mislead or it could be incompetence. But I do not believe it to be incompetence, because no one has ever accused the Vice President of being an individual who does not thoughtfully analyze information. But, again, as Secretary of State Powell concluded, if you have the fever, and he thought that the Vice President had the fever, then you are detached from reality. For the Secretary of State to use the term ``gestapo office'' as an appropriate description of the separate little government that was established in the office of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, I think says something about the inability of some people to see the world as it really is, as opposed to what you have decided it to be. We hear so much about these rosy scenarios that the President and other members of the administration paint regarding Iraq and what is transpiring there, and yet when we hear the truth as it is reported by individuals who do not have a particular ax to grind, such as a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. The gentleman from Washington (Mr. Inslee) is, I am sure, an avid reader of the Wall Street Journal. That is a publication that clearly is pro-administration, is very conservative. But here is what a reporter by the name of Farnaz Fassihi says in e-mails as recently as the 29th of September. ``Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest.…”