Charles Rangel: “I find it difficult to rise in opposition of this resolution, and the reason I do it is because there just does not seem…”

“I find it difficult to rise in opposition of this resolution, and the reason I do it is because there just does not seem to be enough outrage involved in what is being said. We should not have to apologize for brave men and women. We should not have to apologize for what the executive branch or the Congress has or has not done. Several months ago, I called for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense because I thought, as a major architect of this war, that he was fighting this war with other people's children, and when he said that he did not know whether or not we were winning or losing the war, when he said that he did not know whether we were creating more terrorists than we were killing, when he said we did not have any plan to end the war, that it was a slog, I thought, as a former combat veteran, is this the leadership that we can expect from the Secretary of Defense? I thought that America and the military deserve better than that and he should resign.”