[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 136 (Wednesday, October 16, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H7932]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRESS DID NOT AUTHORIZE COLONIZATION OF IRAQ OR SEIZURE OF ITS OIL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, recent news reports that the 
administration plans to seize Iraqi oil and use the money to set up a 
military government in Iraq raise serious questions of the 
administration's intentions in the region. Congress did not authorize 
the colonization of Iraq.
  Congress did not authorize the seizure of Iraqi oil. These reports 
released the day after the congressional vote raise serious questions 
about the administration's intentions for the region, the completeness 
of their disclosures to Congress, and the role of certain oil companies 
in U.S. foreign policy.
  I believe that had the administration fully disclosed their plans 
before the congressional vote that they intended not only military 
occupation but colonization and seizure of oil belonging to the people 
of Iraq, there may have been a much different outcome in the vote.
  The resolution passed by Congress authorizing enforcement of U.N. 
Security Council resolutions authorized not colonization and not taking 
things which do not belong to the United States.

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