John Tierney: “I would just point out this next quote up here, the gentleman has exactly hit on the point. On June 7, Donald Rumsfeld…”

“I would just point out this next quote up here, the gentleman has exactly hit on the point. On June 7, Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, at a press conference, people were asking him, ``Does it even work?'' His answer was, ``This is an interesting question in the sense of what do you mean when you say that works?'' You look at that on its face value as what is he talking about? We know when it works. That is why we do studies. That is why Mr. Coyle did his study, that in case it does not work. Not only does it not work, it needs considerably more testing until it gets to a point we are comfortable that it works reasonably well or sufficiently, and they do not even plan to do the tests so far on that. But again they want to engage our pocketbooks before we engage our national brain on this and start building and committing us down that path. I would just make that point.”