[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            IRAQ MUST DISARM

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, today, U.N. Chief Inspector Hans Blix 
issued his report outlining the continued defiance and noncompliance of 
Saddam Hussein.
  After over 2 months and 350 inspections, Iraq continues to conceal 
pertinent information on its weapons of mass destruction. We know of 
thousands of liters of biological and chemical agents, such as anthrax 
and mustard gas, that are still unaccounted for.
  It is clear that Iraq is in material breach of U.N. resolutions 
because it refuses to fully cooperate, and it refuses to accept 
complete disarmament as demanded by the entire international community.
  Now is the time for the United Nations to stand strong, and now is 
the time to hold Iraq responsible to the international community. We do 
not have the luxury of time with such a dangerous despot as Saddam 
Hussein, a man who has used biological and chemical weapons on his own 
people.
  We cannot allow Saddam Hussein to continue to have control over an 
arsenal that threatens all peace-loving nations. Iraq must be disarmed, 
or it must voluntarily disarm.

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