Bill Delahunt: “Right. Ask General Shinseki, who was dismissed when he disagreed, when he gave just a different opinion as to the number…”

“Right. Ask General Shinseki, who was dismissed when he disagreed, when he gave just a different opinion as to the number of troops that were going to be required in Iraq. He said 300,000. The then-Under Secretary of Defense, Mr. Wolfowitz, said, Hey, that is vastly overrated. Subsequently, we have discovered that the good general was correct. What about Larry Lindsey, who was an economic adviser to the President and who came out with an estimate that the range of dollars that would be necessary in Iraq would go from $100 billion to $200 billion. We are way past $200 billion now. But the administration, the White House, kept saying it will not exceed $60 billion. The American people should remember that. And what happened to Larry Lindsey? He got bumped too.”