This does the trick. Just had to add it to the end of the line. Problem is Cassandra won't delete on a non-primary key. So it will work just fine if you're not trying a delete statement that relies on a non-standard key.
#!/bin/bash
$VCOPS_BASE/cassandra/apache-cassandra-2.1.8/bin/cqlsh --ssl --cqlshrc $VCOPS_BASE/user/conf/cassandra/cqlshrc -e "cql_statement;"