[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            RUMSFELD MUST GO

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, Secretary Powell came before the 
Congressional Black Caucus yesterday. Every Member was there. They 
asked him, Are you going to ask for more money? He said, There is no 
need for more money.
  Within 2 hours, the President of the United States came on and said, 
We need $25 billion more money.
  Even the Secretary of State is left out of the loop. This government 
has no plan; and the fact that a Member has finally stood up and said 
what everybody knows, the emperor has no clothes, it is about time 
somebody said that.
  My newspaper, the lead editorial this morning is ``Rumsfeld Must 
Go.'' He laid our people out there in danger. There is a study out of 
the Army that says that a quarter of the people who have died would not 
have died if they had provided the proper equipment.
  Now, this was a war of choice. We did not have to go. Nobody was 
attacking us. It is clear we were not in danger.

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  They chose a day to go and so they went, whether they were ready or 
not. They did not care about the troops. Our troops are being badly 
used by rotten leadership. They should go.

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