[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18293]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MYTHS WHICH SENT US TO WAR

  (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 CIA Director George Tenet will 
testify behind closed doors. Yesterday I held a public briefing with 
two veteran intelligence officers about the misuse of intelligence 
which took us into war. Ray McGovern, briefed Vice Presidents during 
his 27 years with the CIA. He said, ``In my day, we did our analyses 
among ourselves. We knew what the requirements were. We knew what the 
interests were on the part of the policymakers. But thank you very 
much, we did not need policymakers at the table to tell us how to shape 
the intelligence.'' So much for the current Vice President's multiple 
CIA visits.
  Andrew Wilke, a key intelligence analyst in Australia was on the Iraq 
case and received intelligence received by the U.S. in the run-up to 
the war. He said, ``In that time, I saw not a single piece of critical 
hard evidence to substantiate the claim of any cooperation between Iraq 
and al Qaeda.''
  Was the intelligence-gathering apparatus of our Nation corrupted for 
base political concerns? Did the U.S. go to war based on lies? Congress 
must find out in open public hearings to get the answers about phantom 
nuclear weapons and other myths which sent us to war.

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