[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19152-19153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HELP FROM UNEXPECTED PLACES

  (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, the Bible asks the question, ``From where 
does my help come from?'' And sometimes help comes from unexpected 
places,

[[Page 19153]]

like an anonymous civilian in Mosul who brought the sadistic sons of a 
dictator to justice yesterday; and like the words of a former President 
supporting the Bush administration's assertion that Saddam Hussein 
likely had weapons of mass destruction.
  It was last night on CNN, former President Bill Clinton said, ``When 
I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and 
chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first 
Gulf War we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the 
inspection processes. We bombed for 4 days in 1998, may have gotten it 
all, may have gotten half of it, may have gotten none of it, but we 
didn't know.''
  ``So,'' President Clinton said, ``I thought it was prudent for the 
President to go to the U.N.''
  And he went on to say, ``If you don't cooperate, the penalty could be 
regime change, not just continued sanctions.'' So said former President 
Bill Clinton.
  Thank you, President Clinton, for confirming what President Bush told 
America: Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and 
confronting him was prudent.

                          ____________________