[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 34 (Thursday, March 16, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A NATION PERMANENTLY AT WAR

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, 3 years ago the Bush administration 
spoke to a doctrine of preemption that formed the basis for the United 
States' attack on Iraq. Three years later, Americans finally know there 
were no weapons of mass destruction, Iraq did not have the intention or 
the capability of attacking the United States; that Iraq, in effect, 
was not in a position to attack us.
  Now the American people know what a shambles the Bush 
administration's policy was in Iraq. Yesterday, the administration now 
identifies Iran as the top threat, and states again that we have the 
right to preemptively attack any country. Are we here on the threshold 
of permanent warfare, where the administration can keep naming enemies, 
and the American taxpayers with their sons' and daughters' blood have 
to keep paying for wars that we should not get into?
  We should not only vote against this supplemental appropriation, we 
should start to call into question the administration's entire 
international policy. They are setting America against the world, and 
we are paying for it every day.

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