[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 72 (Thursday, May 20, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H3404-H3405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION HAVE BEEN FOUND IN IRAQ

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, despite the national media's best efforts to 
minimize the news, I am here to report, as the United States military 
confirmed in Iraq on Monday, weapons of mass destruction have been 
found in Iraq in the form of two separate artillery shells containing 
sarin and mustard gas, shells that had been used by insurgents to 
create roadside bombs. A 155 millimeter shell found last week included 
nearly a gallon of a deadly gas, a drop of which would kill a human 
being. Not that we should be surprised. Saddam Hussein killed or 
injured over 70,000 Iraqi Kurds using sarin gas munitions in 1988.
  Where are the WMDs? We have been asked again and again. Mr. Speaker, 
they are where they have always been, hidden in Iraq, within the reach 
of terrorists, a threat to the Iraqi people, U.S. soldiers, and the 
world.

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