David Obey on CNN NOW

[seventhson]

nt

[seemslikeadream]

1. Sent a letter to Bush

telling him Rummy and Wolfie should resign!

[Pastiche423]

2. What'd he say?

No cable here.

[seemslikeadream]

4. They have made repeated and serious

miscalculations, extremely costly to the American people.

[Khephra]

3. I think it's a repeat from earlier...here's the transcript

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/05/ldt.00.html

[oasis]

5. Thanks

[pansypoo53219]

6. Obey

is a prime example why we should NOT have term limits. Obey be the MAN!

[Bushfire]

7. He was also on CNBC today

so its making the rounds. They'll never step down, but at least some of the congresscritters are speaking up. Damn, 'bout time!

on edit: NYTimes article

Senior House Democrat Urges Top Defense Hands to Resign
By DAVID FIRESTONE


WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 — A senior House Democrat called today for the resignation of the top two officials at the Defense Department, saying that miscalculations by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the deputy secretary, Paul D. Wolfowitz, had cost American lives in Iraq and damaged the nation's fiscal health.

In a letter to President Bush, Representative David R. Obey, the ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee, said the Pentagon should be relieved of its role in determining foreign policy in Iraq, in part because of errors made by Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Wolfowitz before and after the war.

"It is impossible to review the record of the past year and not conclude that they have made repeated and serious miscalculations," said Mr. Obey, who has represented northern Wisconsin for 34 years.

The unilateral conduct of the war and the planning for postwar occupation cannot be seen as "anything other than a disaster," he wrote.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/06/politics/06RESI.html?ex=1063425600&en=c5441754c6571981&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE