[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONSISTENTLY WRONG

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, just yesterday President Bush in the 
cabinet room said, ``This administration never said that the 9/11 
attacks were orchestrated between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.'' 
Really?
  Let me read what National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in 
September, 2002, ``We clearly know that there were in the past and have 
been contacts between senior Iraqi officials and members of al Qaeda 
going back for actually quite a long time.''
  Mr. Speaker, 1 year later the National Security Adviser in September 
2003 said, ``We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either 
direction or control on 9/11.''
  On Monday night, Vice President Cheney, who has long maintained and 
repeatedly has asserted that a collaborative relationship existed 
between Iraq and al Qaeda said he, Saddam Hussein, ``was a patron of 
terrorism'' and that he had ``long-established ties with al Qaeda.'' 
This is the fourth or fifth time he has asserted this relationship, or 
members of the administration have. There is at least one thing we know 
about the Vice President: He is consistent, he is wrong, and he has 
been consistently wrong on this subject.

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