[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14258-14259]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL STANDING IS BEING DAMAGED

  (Ms. DeGETTE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, we have now gone 80 days without finding 
any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Questions are mounting as to 
whether the intelligence presented by the administration was 
manipulated or deliberately misinterpreted to create a false 
justification for the war.
  Regardless of whether we supported or opposed the war, this is a 
critical issue. America's international standing is being damaged by 
this failure; and more importantly, this issue raises serious doubts 
about our intelligence apparatus, and it raises potential 
constitutional concerns.
  I urge all of us to look carefully at this lapse, and I urge Congress 
to work in a bipartisan way to find out how this happened and to take 
steps to ensure that Congress and the American people are never misled 
when it comes to the issue of sending our American fighting men and 
women into harm's way about

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the purpose and the extent of the problem.

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