Jay Inslee: “Well, Madam Speaker, what has happened is that many misstatements have been laid bare to the American people, and that…”

“Well, Madam Speaker, what has happened is that many misstatements have been laid bare to the American people, and that is why the American people are demanding Congress ask the questions we are constitutionally obligated to ask about this program. And we will not be dissuaded by those who will simply try to demagogue this issue by saying that we are not supporting the troops. We are the ones who want to improve the troops' pay grades; we are the ones who want to make sure that, in fact, this gets paid. I want to make one point also. This debate tomorrow is not going to be about whether or not we continue to fulfill a responsibility in Iraq, because there is bipartisan consensus that we have some responsibility in Iraq; and anybody who says otherwise, well, that is just a red herring. But what we are saying is, let us not repeat the errors that a Democratic President made in the 1960s of deciding to try to fight a war on the cheap and saying we can have both guns and butter and create these enormous deficits. Now, it is the same as what happened in the 1960s here. This is going to create enormous deficits. There is a little difference, though. At least in the 1960s it was our butter. Now it is going to be the Iraqis' butter that Americans are going into debt to pay. Now, maybe some of that has to happen by the vicissitudes of fate we find ourselves in, but we should not repeat the mistake of the 1960s that ended up with a horrendous deficit going through the roof in the 1970s.”