[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 29, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            U.N. ABSURDITIES

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, for 12 years we have amassed a mountain of 
proof that Saddam Hussein has both weapons of mass destruction and the 
missiles he needs to launch them.
  Right now, Saddam Hussein is violating a long string of binding U.N. 
resolutions. He continues to repeatedly violate the terms of the 1991 
ceasefire, which amounts to a resumption of war.
  As we heard last evening, our President is determined to stop Saddam 
Hussein before it is too late by disarming him of weapons of mass 
destruction. But over and over we hear the President's critics say that 
he should not act without the United Nations.
  Now, President Bush agrees that the U.N. can be very helpful, but 
sometimes the U.N. does the wrong thing. Last year, the U.N. placed 
some of the world's worst human rights abusers on its Commission on 
Human Rights. Now, of all countries, Libya is going to chair that body.
  If that is not bad enough, Iraq, Iraq is in line to take over the 
U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Could anything be more ludicrous?
  President Bush should do the right thing with or without the United 
Nations.

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