[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18031]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE TRUTH STILL MATTERS

  (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, even here in Washington, D.C., the truth 
still matters. And despite what my colleague from Ohio just suggested, 
the truth is that Iraq had a program of weapons of mass destruction in 
the months and years prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Saddam Hussein 
himself admitted in 1991 to the possession of 10,000 nerve gas 
warheads, 1,500 chemical weapons, and 412 tons of chemical weapons 
agents. The truth is President Clinton attacked Saddam Hussein in 1998 
to confront his biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. The 
truth is that Great Britain's intelligence community confirmed Iraq's 
efforts to obtain enriched uranium in Africa. The truth is it was that 
intelligence report that the President spoke of on this floor, and the 
truth is that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program and that 
Operation Iraqi Freedom was our finest and noblest and most necessary 
hour in these recent times.

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