[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 22, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H4904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SOME WAR ON TERRORISM

  (Mr. NADLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, this morning's New York Times reveals that a 
new classified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq 
may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic 
extremists than Afghanistan was in al Qaeda's early days because it is 
serving as a real-world laboratory for urban combat and that Iraq, 
since the American invasion of 2003, had assumed the role played by 
Afghanistan during the rise of al Qaeda as a magnet and a proving 
ground for Islamic extremists from Saudi Arabia and other Islamic 
countries.
  Mr. Speaker, we know that there were no weapons of mass destruction 
in Iraq. We know there was no connection between Iraq and Osama bin 
Laden. We know the President deceived the American people on these 
subjects, got us into an unnecessary war, and has now created a danger 
zone in Iraq, a country that was no danger, no threat to the United 
States and now is a training ground for more al Qaeda extremists who 
will be more and more endangering to the United States in terrorism.
  We have created a training ground. We have created a training ground 
for terrorists because of the President's deception of American people. 
Some war on terrorism.

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