Jay Inslee: “And yet the President of the United States just left out that little fact that they were in the part of Iraq that Saddam…”

“And yet the President of the United States just left out that little fact that they were in the part of Iraq that Saddam did not control when he discussed this issue. Now, this omission has led many people to be very concerned, even those who have supported President Bush. I note this editorial in the Dallas Morning News of June 22, 2004. This is a newspaper that supported President Bush's election. In fact, they noted that in this editorial, and they have listened to the administration's response to the 9/11 Commission. They have listened to this sort of excuse-making that has come out of the White House to try to excuse this. But look what the Dallas Morning News, a newspaper that has supported President Bush, said. It said, ``U.S. troops have found no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and the 9/11 panel says there was no working partnership between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. President Bush presented both WMD and the al Qaeda-Hussein link as reasons for striking Iraq before it attacks us. ``The President has a credibility gap here, and he needs to address it right away. Vice President Dick Cheney tried but failed miserably. He said, in effect, `we know more than you and you better trust us.' '' And then, I might have to subscribe to the Dallas Morning News, because I think in the next paragraph they hit the nail on the head. ``The country did just that when we went to the war in Iraq, but things aren't working as promised.…”