[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17466]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            INDEPENDENT COMMISSION/SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NEEDED

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, two more soldiers, as reported 
by national news, lost their lives in Iraq this morning. The war 
continues.
  Yesterday, the Secretary of Defense said to the United States Senate, 
as reported in the Los Angeles Times, ``Defense Secretary Donald H. 
Rumsfeld said yesterday that the United States' decision to go to war 
with Iraq was based not on the evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime 
had chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, but on old evidence 
reinterpreted in the wake of September 11, 2001.''
  Mr. Speaker, what was told to the American people is that we were to 
be under imminent attack by Saddam Hussein. What was told to the 
American people was that we were in the line of fire. Mr. Speaker, I 
believe it is imperative that an independent commission and a special 
prosecutor be set up, and I believe that it is not frivolous for us to 
address the question of why the President of the United States 
addressed this body and suggested there was uranium being bought from 
Niger on the continent of Africa.
  I believe the American people need the truth. More importantly, I 
believe the mothers and fathers who have lost their sons and daughters 
need the truth. We have a responsibility to the American people--tell 
the truth!

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