Tim Ryan: “I think the point was, and we were all campaigning during the initial vote for the war. But I remember making the…”

“I think the point was, and we were all campaigning during the initial vote for the war. But I remember making the argument as I was campaigning, as I think a lot of other Democrats were here in the House, instead of going off to war, the alternative was, now we are spending a billion and a half dollars a week in Iraq, I think one of the alternative proposals was to fund this stuff, take care of the Nation's security, take care of the ports, make sure that we have enough people to do the kind of real inspection that we think needs to be done instead of spending the money elsewhere. And when you think about it in a logical way, that this money is going to be spent to hire American workers to protect America, it makes a lot of sense.”