[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WHAT IS SADDAM HUSSEIN HIDING?

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, since the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq 
has violated U.N. sanctions and resolutions 16 times. Sixteen times 
they have thumbed their nose at the United Nations and their 
resolutions.
  Now, I commend President Bush on addressing these issues with the 
United Nations last Thursday. It is time to enforce all United Nations 
resolutions, and it is time to put weapons inspectors back in Iraq with 
unfettered access. This hard line must be taken.
  Iraq cannot be given another decade to comply. All U.N. resolutions 
must be enforced, and this cannot be negotiable.
  Mr. Speaker, if Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, then what 
are they afraid of? If Iraq complied with the United Nations' 
resolutions, sanctions would be lifted; and they could make $120 
billion a year in their oil sales; but Saddam Hussein has foregone $120 
billion a year to hide something. We must have U.N. inspectors inside 
Iraq, and they must have complete access to see everything to see just 
what Saddam Hussein is hiding from the rest of the world.

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