[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REPORTS DISCOVERED ON IRAQ

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, today the New York Times uncovered two 
classified reports prepared for President Bush in the months leading up 
to the war in Iraq. These documents warned the President that ``an 
American-led invasion of Iraq would result in a deeply divided Iraqi 
society prone to violent internal conflict.'' Officials told the Times 
that a second report warns of a possible insurgency, saying the rogue 
elements from Saddam Hussein's government could work with existing 
terrorist groups or act independently to wage guerrilla warfare.
  Sounds exactly like the situation our U.S. troops face today in Iraq. 
Unfortunately, President Bush and his administration did not listen to 
these warnings. Vice President Cheney said we would be greeted with 
flowers, and President Bush egged insurgents on by telling them to 
``bring it on.''
  Today's report is just another example of the President's failed 
policies in Iraq. He had a flawed rationale for going to war. He did 
not have a plan to win the peace. He failed to implement his 
reconstruction plans for Iraq, leaving the country in chaos. And now we 
learn that he ignored intelligence estimates that warned of problems 
after the fall of Baghdad. The world cannot afford another 4 years of 
this failed leadership.

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