Jay Inslee: “I want to follow up on what Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said, because I think it is accurate. He said, discussing the…”

“I want to follow up on what Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said, because I think it is accurate. He said, discussing the situation in Iraq, "It is beyond pitiful. It is beyond embarrassing. It is now in the zone of dangerous." And I want to reiterate that that is not just rhetoric; that is reality. The reason I know it is reality is because we just lost a man from Lynwood, Washington, last week, Corporal Steven Rintamaki, 21 years of age, who will never be coming home, killed in action in Iraq while serving proudly and with distinction in Iraq. Yes, indeed, this is in the zone of dangerous. And this country deserves an administration who will be forthright and truthful and is not looking through this situation with rose-colored glasses. What Chuck Hagel said, that we are now in the zone of dangerous, I think we can say in spades that that is the situation. I learned something tonight, Mr. Speaker, that is so disturbing I just have to share it. Osama bin Laden, who is still at large somewhere in the world tonight, after the President told us he would get him dead or alive; he is still at large. The al Qaeda network is still functioning and now attacking our troops in Iraq.”