[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 111 (Friday, August 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SADDAM HUSSEIN AT IT AGAIN

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, well, Saddam Hussein and Iraq are at it 
again. I am not surprised, are you?
  It seems that Saddam Hussein has decided to stop cooperating once 
again with the United Nations weapons inspectors. As expected, the 
United Nations have offered another olive branch to Iraq if they would 
just cooperate with the disarmament process.
  Oh, please, give us a break. At what point is the United Nations 
going to stop coddling Saddam Hussein? I do not think any of us were 
surprised at this dictator's last demands. Sadly, I do not think any of 
us were surprised at the United Nations Secretary General's response 
either.
  Iraq is thumbing their nose at the world. They are again ignoring 
their obligations under the U.N. resolutions, defying the U.S. and 
playing a very dangerous game, all the while they are insulting our 
intelligence.
  Now, barely 6 months after our threat to use force, inspectors have 
been turned away again, and Saddam is laughing at the world. It is time 
for this administration to get its head out of the sand and start by 
developing a real strategy designed to show the world and Saddam that 
we are serious.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back any foreign policy and national security 
that this Nation may have left.

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