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




                WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ARE IN IRAQ

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich), who 
just addressed this body, raised the issue that I suspect we will hear 
again and again before this Congress. Where are the WMDs, and who do 
you believe? Did the Bush administration mislead the American people?
  Well, in answering the question of who you believe, I believe Saddam 
Hussein, Mr. Speaker, who in 1991 after being soundly defeated in the 
Persian Gulf War admitted to the U.N. agency responsible for monitoring 
the cease fire that he possessed 10,000 nerve gas warheads, 1,500 
chemical weapons, and 412 tons of chemical weapons with 25 long-range 
missiles.
  Even President Clinton when he bombed Baghdad in 1998 said he did so 
to ``attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological programs in its 
capacity to threaten its neighbors.''
  As a State Department official told the Committee on International 
Relations last week, there was no change in the assessment of the WMD 
program from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. 
Those weapons were there. The program was there. The President led 
America aright in this war.

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