[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7916]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STOP THIS WAR NOW

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of 
January 7, 2003, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) is recognized 
during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, stop the war now. As Baghdad will be 
encircled, this is the time to get the UN back in to inspect Baghdad 
and the rest of Iraq for biological and chemical weapons. Our troops 
should not have to be the ones who will find out in combat whether Iraq 
has such weapons. Why put our troops at greater risk? We can get the 
United Nations inspectors back in.
  Stop the war now, before we send our troops into house-to-house 
combat in Baghdad, a city of 5 million people; before we ask our troops 
to take up the burden of shooting innocent civilians in the fog of war.
  Stop the war now. This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq 
was not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al 
Qaeda may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax 
attacks on this country. Iraq did not try to acquire nuclear weapon 
technologies from Niger. This war is built on falsehoods.
  Stop the war now. We are not defending America in Iraq. Iraq did not 
attack this Nation. Iraq has no ability to attack this Nation. Each 
innocent civilian casualty represents a threat to America for years to 
come and will end up making our Nation less safe.
  The $75 billion supplemental needs to be challenged, because each 
dime we spend on this war makes America less safe. Only international 
cooperation will help us win the war on terror.
  After 9/11, all Americans remember that we had the support and the 
sympathy of the world. Every nation was ready to be of assistance to 
the United States in meeting the challenge of terrorism, and yet with 
this war we have squandered the sympathy of the world. We have brought 
upon this Nation the anger of the world. We need the cooperation of the 
world to find the terrorists before they come to our shores.
  Stop this war now. $75 billion more for war, three-quarters of a 
trillion dollars for tax cuts, but no money for veterans' benefits. 
Money for war, but no money for health care in America. Money for war, 
but no money for Social Security. But money for war.
  We have money to blow up bridges over the Tigris and the Euphrates, 
but no money to build bridges in our own cities. We have money to ruin 
the health of the Iraqi children, but no money to repair the health of 
our own children and our educational programs.
  Stop this war now. It is wrong, it is illegal, it is unjust, and it 
will come to no good for this country.
  Stop this war now. Show our wisdom and our humanity to be able to 
stop it. Bring back the United Nations into the process. Rescue this 
moment. Rescue this Nation from a war which is wrong, which is unjust, 
which is immoral.
  Stop this war now.

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