[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 11, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H1714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE TRUTH ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of 
misinformation going around about our good friend, Saddam Hussein, and 
I think that the American people as well as my colleagues need to know 
really what is going on, because a lot of people have not been paying 
attention to this.
  For the past decade, Saddam Hussein has violated 16 separate U.N. 
resolutions. He has failed to account for 26,500 artillery rockets used 
for delivering nerve gas; he has failed to account for 5,000 artillery 
shells filled with mustard gas; he has failed to account for more than 
3,000 tons of chemicals that could be used as weapons; and he has 
failed time and time again to honor his agreement on the no-fly zone.
  Mr. Speaker, he has enough biological agents to produce 26,000 liters 
of anthrax, 26,000 liters, 1,200 liters of botulinum toxin, and a whole 
bunch of others. He has tried to procure uranium for nuclear weaponry, 
and he has failed to account for nearly 30,000 empty munitions that 
could be filled with chemical agents.

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  Yet, there are so many people, after all of these violations, who 
keep saying, we ought to wait, we ought to wait, we ought to wait. He 
is connected to the terrorist network. If we are not very careful, if 
we do not deal with him very quickly, he is going to produce these 
biological and chemical weapons, he is going to give them to one of his 
minions in al Qaeda or some other terrorist organization, they are 
going to come into the United States, and they are going to kill tens 
or hundreds of thousands of Americans. That is why we need to deal with 
him very, very expeditiously.
  One of the things that concerns me so much is that we do not profit 
from history. Back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hitler, the 
Chancellor of Germany, said time and again that he wanted peace and he 
did not want to violate any neutrality treaties, and yet he violated 
the Treaty of Versailles. He went into the Sudetenland and got an 
agreement from the European allies and said that that was all he 
wanted. And then he went into Poland after violating a nonagression 
pact. And then he went into Denmark, and then he went into Norway, and 
then he went into Sweden, and then he went into Belgium, and then he 
went into Paris and France. And because the world did not pay attention 
to what was going on and they did not listen to Winston Churchill, who 
was the only voice who made any sense, 50 million people died. I want 
everybody to listen to that: 50 million people died because they did 
not pay any attention to what Hitler was saying and what he was doing.
  Now, Saddam Hussein has at his disposal weapons of mass destruction, 
and he has hidden them for the past 10 to 12 years; and he has not 
accounted for them. For us and the Free World to keep our heads in the 
sand while this is going on is absolutely incredulous.
  The President of the United States is doing the right thing. The only 
thing I would say to the President is if the United Nations does not 
start forcing him to adhere, Saddam to adhere to those U.N. 
resolutions, then why talk to them anymore? Mr. President, do what is 
necessary. Take our troops and invade Iraq from the north and the 
south, if possible, get rid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass 
destruction, and send a signal to the world and the terrorists 
worldwide that we are not going to tolerate them. Do not mess with the 
U.N. anymore, Mr. President, because they simply are not with it.

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