[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 62 (Thursday, May 12, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3202]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         WE ARE A NATION AT WAR

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, in moments like yesterday, we are one in 
support for each other's safety and well-being. Thankfully, it was an 
error by the pilot of a small plane.
  The White House's response was telling: ``We have to remember we are 
a Nation at war.''
  We are. But at war against Iraq. Iraq did not attack us. Iraq had 
nothing to do with 9/11. We may well be proving that the best way to 
avoid a war is not to wage one.
  Einstein said the significant problems we have cannot be solved at 
the same level of thinking with which we created them. Does the war 
against Iraq make us safer or less safe?
  After spending $420 billion annually for the military and an 
additional $270 billion for the war in Iraq, why are we still running 
for the exits? Has the so-called war on terror made us less safe?
  We all want safety and security for ourselves, our loved ones, our 
Nation, and the world. But there has to be a better way than war. One 
of our greatest Presidents, Franklin Roosevelt, knew this and he knew 
war. He concluded: ``If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate 
the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all 
lands to live together and to work together in the same world at 
peace.''

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