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Jay Inslee: “I suspect the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) agrees with me that when you look in the eyes of a young widow, as…”

On the recordJune 22, 2004
I suspect the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) agrees with me that when you look in the eyes of a young widow, as I have, who lost their husband as a result of this multitude of falsehoods by this administration, it matters a whole heck of a lot. And this administration is now trying to demean and belittle the fact that they started a war based on falsehood, and they think that Americans are just going to forget it, and somehow we are supposed to forget the incompetence, the rank incompetence, the multitude of tactical, logistical, strategic mistakes they made time after time, of total ignorance about the cultural situation in Iraq, about the looting we knew was going to happen, and somehow we are supposed to forgive and forget that.
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the consequences of the Iraq War and the administration's justifications for it.

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