Bill Delahunt: “If I can interrupt, I think we are usually in agreement, but here I have to disagree, because it was not immediately…”

“If I can interrupt, I think we are usually in agreement, but here I have to disagree, because it was not immediately after 9/11. Yes, I believe the President did make that statement, and I presume he will acknowledge he made that statement. It has been acknowledged implicitly by the spokesperson for the White House. But if you go back and examine the record, this administration, and particularly the Vice President of the United States, for whatever reason, presumably this grand vision of a Middle East rearranged in a manner that purportedly would move democracy forward, believed that Iraq was the linchpin to having that happen, and a conclusion had been reached and they were simply looking for the opportunity to invade Iraq. That was before 9/11.”