Jay Inslee: “If I may, I would like to attempt to answer the question why we are in Iraq rather than Iran, and the answer is because…”

“If I may, I would like to attempt to answer the question why we are in Iraq rather than Iran, and the answer is because we have an administration who is willing to follow their ideology rather than the evidence. They are willing to say things as long as it is consistent with their ideological beliefs even if it is inconsistent with the facts as given to them by our intelligence agents. Let me give an example. The Vice President now for 2 years has just kept spouting this statement that the reason we should invade Iraq is because there was a meeting, one of the reasons, because there was a meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence person in Prague.”