[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14257-14258]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ADMINISTRATION MUST HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, the credibility gap is growing. First the 
administration said the U.S. had to sweep aside the U.N. inspections 
and the Security Council because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction 
which were an imminent threat.
  No weapons have been found to justify the war. So why did we go to 
war?
  Now Paul Wolfowitz says, ``The truth is that for reasons that have a 
lot to do with the U.S. Government bureaucracy, we settled on the one 
issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass 
destruction as the core reason.''
  Now their story is changing. Iraq had a weapons program, they say. No 
longer weapons of mass destruction but a program. Is this now the core 
reason?
  Bait and switch will not work here, nor will a pretense for war. If 
this administration can fabricate reasons for

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the war after the fact, where will America be headed for war next?
  Congress must demand accountability for the wanton exercise of war 
power, loss of life, destruction of property, waste of tax dollars, and 
damage to America's reputation.

                              {time}  1215

  Thirty-three Members of the House have now signed the resolution of 
inquiry to demand the White House tell the truth.

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