[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18960]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            BUSH STATE OF THE UNION AND URANIUM INTELLIGENCE

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his.
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I come to the House floor today expressing 
a word of caution to my friends on the other side of the aisle. 
Recently there have been questionable advertisements on television that 
present a misleading picture of President Bush.
  During this year's State of the Union speech President Bush cited 
intelligence about the possibility that Iraq was attempting to purchase 
uranium from Africa. To hear the advertisements sponsored by the 
Democratic National Committee, you would guess President Bush, on a 
whim, decided to add this language without any consultation or 
evidence.
  Let me enlighten my colleagues with the facts by reading our 
President's entire quote. ``The British Government has learned that 
Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from 
Africa.'' This is quite different from the half statement, 10 words, 
that our colleagues in the minority attribute to President Bush.
  Shame on some of my colleagues for politicizing the war on terrorism 
for their own political gain and using half-truths while pretending to 
seek the whole truth. I call for the immediate removal of these blatant 
misleading ads.

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