Interview in part went like this:
BRENNAN: Over the weekend former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he warned you and General Franks in front of the President that we needed more troops. Last week we had General Bernard Trainor on the program and he’s written a book, Cobra II, that says there were many people in and around the Pentagon who warned you that we needed more troops for the Iraqi effort, but you apparently did not listen, they insist.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Well, I don’t know the gentleman. The quote you gave, I’ve not seen the book so I can’t speak to it, but I can tell you this, that contrary to that the President of the United States sat with the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a room and he pointed to each one and said have you been over the war plan? Do you have everything you need? Do you believe this is the plan that will be successful? And to a person they said yes. He did it with the combatant commanders. Then he did it with a secure video where he went to General Franks and to each of his sub-commanders, land, sea and air, and asked them specifically, do you have everything you need? Do you agree with this war plan and the numbers? And they did...
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