[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      UNJUSTIFIED WAR AGAINST IRAQ

  (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, we owe it to the memories of those who 
lost their lives on 9-11 to remember, to reflect, and also to bring to 
justice those responsible. We also have a similar obligation not to use 
the events of 9-11 and the great losses which so many endured as a 
pretext for launching a war against Iraq.
  Iraq was not responsible for 9-11. Iraq has not been linked to 9-11. 
Yet here we are on the anniversary of that grim day, and all the 
administration is attempting to do is reframe 9-11 by beating the drum 
for war against a nation not connected to 9-11.
  America has had enough violence in the past year for our country to 
have to suffer even more violence to the truth which brings us into an 
unjustified war. Let us heal our Nation and heal it with truth and with 
justice. That is the American way.

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