[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5814]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ALTERNATIVE TO WAR

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Madam Speaker, last week a Defense Department spokesman 
announced that the United States is preparing to use landmines in Iraq. 
What an insult to the 146 countries brave enough to sign the Landmine 
Treaty which forbids the use of landmines. Embarrassingly, the United 
States is not a signatory.
  Landmines do not know the difference between a soldier and a child.
  Instead of killing children, we need to educate them. Instead of 
seeding Iraq with explosives, we should plant seeds of peace and well-
being worldwide. Instead of using landmines in Iraq, we should be 
cleaning up landmines in Afghanistan.
  Madam Speaker, the use of landmines is a step in the wrong direction. 
There are alternatives to war. Our problem is we have not prepared for 
them.

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