[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 25, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            RESERVATIONS CONCERNING PROPOSED ATTACK ON IRAQ

  (Mr. WU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WU. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my grave reservations 
concerning this administration's proposed attack on Iraq. If there were 
evidence of an imminent threat against us or an attack on Iraq's 
neighbors, I would not hesitate to use force. But every successful 
American wartime President, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, 
presented evidence to the Nation and to the world that war was 
absolutely necessary, and thereby led a united Nation in purpose and in 
moral certitude.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to quote a President who avoided becoming a 
wartime President. In averting a war with France almost 2 centuries 
ago, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail: ``Great is the guilt of an 
unnecessary war.''
  If there is evidence of imminent necessity, I ask the administration 
to present it now. We owe it to ourselves, to the world, and to 
posterity.




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