[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16136]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       WAS AMERICA MISLED ON IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?

  (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, today the House will consider an amendment 
to H.R. 2417 which will direct the Inspector General of the Central 
Intelligence Agency to conduct an audit of all telephone records and 
electronic communications between the CIA and the Office of the Vice 
President that relate to so-called weapons of mass destruction obtained 
or developed by Iraq preceding Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have 
introduced this amendment to obtain the Vice President's records in 
response to a June 5 article in the Washington Post which reported that 
the Vice President made multiple visits to the CIA by which some 
analysts felt pressured to make their assessments on Iraq fit with Bush 
administration policy objectives.
  This administration has repeatedly claimed they had evidence which 
proved that Iraq had vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction 
that posed an imminent threat to the United States. Americans remember 
that this administration cited their evidence of Iraq's weapons as 
reason to go to war.
  It has been over 3 months since the start of the war. No such weapons 
have been found. Has there been a massive intelligence failure on the 
part of all our intelligence agencies? Or has this administration 
deliberately misled this Nation to war? Either way, there needs to be 
an investigation.
  My amendment would uncover the role the Vice President may have 
played to achieve a political translation of CIA intelligence about 
alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in order to suit the 
Bush administration's campaign to push this country to war.

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