[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14348-14349]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WHERE WAS THE IMMINENT THREAT

  (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 Bush administration made specific, 
unequivocal statements about the imminent threat posed by Iraq's 
alleged weapons of mass destruction, repeatedly claiming they had 
intelligence showing Iraq had 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters 
of botulin toxin, 500 tons of sarin mustard and VX nerve agent, and 
over 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. So where 
are those vast stockpiles? Where was the imminent threat?
  At the State of the Union the President said, Hussein had the 
materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin mustard and VX nerve 
agent. Where are those vast stockpiles? Where was the imminent threat?
  This administration repeatedly claimed Iraq's weapons of mass 
destruction represented an imminent threat to this country. They 
claimed specific evidence of vast stockpiles. Where are those vast 
stockpiles? Where was the imminent threat?
  Did this administration deliberately mislead this Nation into war, 
telling us

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there was an imminent threat when there was not?
  The resolution of inquiry now signed by 36 Members of the House aims 
to find out the truth.

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