[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16138]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             SADDAM HUSSEIN AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to be working on the 
intelligence bill, probably voting on it later this week; and we are 
going to be hearing a lot from the left in this Chamber that we have 
not located weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and somehow the 
President is at fault. I just wanted to remind my colleagues what some 
of their Democrat Members in the other body said.
  Here is a Member from Indiana, October 3, 2002: ``Saddam Hussein 
possesses chemical, biological weapons and, if events are allowed to 
run their own course, will some day possess nuclear weapons.''
  Here is another Senator from California, a woman. My colleagues get 
the choice which of the two: ``I believe that Saddam Hussein rules by 
terror and has squirreled away stores of biological and chemical 
weapons.'' That was October 10, 2002.
  Here is a Senator from West Virginia, one with a very common name: 
``The people of the United States and the rest of the world are at risk 
as long as Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction,'' March 18, 
2003.
  And here is another one from a Senator from Maryland: ``Over the last 
12 years he's ignored U.N. resolutions and embargoes and has illegal 
chemical and biological weapons . . .'' That was March 18, 2003.
  Many, many leading Democrat liberals were in support of our going 
into Iraq in the name of weapons of mass destruction. I just want our 
colleagues to keep that in mind as we debate this bill today.

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