[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23618-23619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   NO MORE DOLLARS FOR IRAQI FREEDOM

  (Ms. WATERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I had not come to the floor prepared to say 
anything; except when I heard my colleagues from the other side of the 
aisle talking about the success of Iraqi Freedom, I just have to remind 
the Congress of the United States that we have been asked for $87 
billion to continue this war that was a preemptive strike that most of 
us, or many of us, did not agree with.
  The fact of the matter is we are finding out every day that we have 
been misled, that we have been told stories that are not true. They 
have still not found the weapons of mass destruction, and now we are 
asked not only to support our soldiers, but we are now asked to rebuild 
Iraq. Most of us are certainly in support of our soldiers, and we are 
very upset that they have not had the equipment and the supplies and 
other kinds of things good planning would have caused any army to have. 
But most of us are not satisfied with the fact that we are asked to 
rebuild Iraq when, in fact, this administration told us that they were 
going to get the

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money from the oil wells, the oil wells that they secured when they 
first went in, to pay for the rebuilding of Iraq; $87 billion, not now.

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