Bill Delahunt: “I have reviewed that particular interview with General Scheid. He goes on to say: ``Just as we were getting into…”

“I have reviewed that particular interview with General Scheid. He goes on to say: ``Just as we were getting into Afghanistan, Rumsfeld came and told us to get ready for Iraq.'' Scheid remembers thinking, My gosh, we're in the middle of Afghanistan. How can we possibly be doing two at one time? How could we pull this off? It's just going to be too much. The Secretary of Defense continued to push us that everything we write in our plan has to be with the idea that we're going to go in, we're going to take out the regime, and then we're going to leave. You know, to think that the President has not demanded from the Secretary of Defense his resignation I think is a statement of arrogance, a statement that the American people are being insulted. And I hear this frequently: If this were done in the private sector, how long would the head or a CEO of an agency the size of the Department of Defense be allowed to continue? I mean, we all know that answer. That is a rhetorical question.”