Bill Delahunt: “I would like to just follow up a point that the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Inslee) made about the rationale for the…”

“I would like to just follow up a point that the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Inslee) made about the rationale for the war. They did know, they meaning the cabal that was described by the Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. The cabal knew that they needed the threat of the mushroom cloud. What is fascinating is that after the release of the initial report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the chairman of the committee, a Republican, Senator Roberts from Kansas, and Jay Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the committee, said that they doubted that the Senate would have authorized the President to go to war if senators had been given accurate information regarding Iraq's programs on the weapons of mass destruction. The direct quote of the Republican chairman was this: ``I doubt if the votes would have been there.'' That is Senator Roberts. They would not have their war if they had opened up and provided all of the information. I am sure some of you read Bob Woodward's book, the reporter for the Washington Post, where he quoted Secretary of State Colin Powell as describing the Vice President as having a war fever. He is out of control, This is what Powell is saying. You talk about third-party validations. It is as if he had a war fever, and here we are today, rampant corruption in Iraq.…”