"If America has reached a point where only one person has the ability in our great democracy to manage the Pentagon and to continue or to put in place a better policy even, we’re in deeper trouble than you think," Kerry told broadcaster Don Imus. "I don’t accept that. I just don’t accept that. I think that’s an excuse. The fact is that we need a change in policy."
Asked who he would put in place as defense secretary, Kerry first named McCain, R-Ariz., and then listed Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Warner, R-Va., and William Perry, who served as defense secretary under President Clinton.
I really do think he has flipped!
"There are any number of people who are unbelievably capable. This notion that we have to continue with a policy that’s wrong and taking us down the wrong track is absurd," Kerry said.
Kerry had called for Rumsfeld to resign months before the Iraq prison abuse scandal, citing what he said were numerous miscalculations in the prosecution of the war in Iraq.
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