[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY

  (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, this morning I will be introducing a 
resolution of inquiry which demands the President transmit to the House 
of Representatives the complete Iraqi declaration on its weapons of 
mass destruction, that was provided to the United Nations on December 
7, 2002.
  If the administration is intent on taking this country into a war, I 
believe it is incumbent upon them to make the document which was 
portrayed as evidence of an Iraqi threat available for all to evaluate. 
As of today, neither Congress nor the media nor the American people 
have seen the full Iraqi declaration of weapons of mass destruction. 
Instead, we have only heard interpretations of the document from the 
White House and the United Nations.
  Let the American people and we, their elected Representatives, who 
under our Constitution have the power to declare war, determine the 
justification for war, let the primary documents be transmitted in 
their complete and unedited form and be brought to the light of day.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people have the right to see this 
information. Congress has the right to see this information, and the 
administration has an obligation to show it before sending any of our 
sons and daughters into battle.

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