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




                            HADLEY? HARDLY!

  (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, Steven Hadley, the Deputy National 
Security Advisor, tried to take the President, the Vice President, the 
Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Advisor off the biggest 
hook in town by accepting the blame for the President falsely claiming 
in the State of the Union that Iraq was trying to go nuclear.
  Hadley says he had ``forgotten'' the previous memos from Director 
Tenet discounting an Iraq-Niger uranium connection and neglected to 
remove this information from the speech.
  So the American people are being asked to believe that the bogus 
major cause of war against Iraq eliminating a nuclear threat was 
advanced because a lower-level functionary simply overlooked a memo 
from a higher functionary, and that the President, the Vice President, 
the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Advisor were all 
blissfully unaware of the fact that false nuclear claims they were 
circulating about Iraq were simply the result of a memo misfiled by a 
national security clerk named Hadley.
  Hadley? Hardly. Hadley? Hardly. Hadley? Hardly.

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