[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21470]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            CHANGE IS NEEDED

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, we as Americans have been victims of lies, 
deceptions, and distractions. Today's LA Times reported that Saddam 
Hussein did not produce or possess any weapons of mass destruction for 
more than a decade before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
  Last year it was said, and it has been said repeatedly, that there 
were weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi regime had no formal 
written strategy to revise the banned programs after sanctions and no 
staff or infrastructure in place to do so.
  Mr. Speaker, more than a thousand U.S. troops have been killed and 
thousands more have been wounded for a bogus reason. We have broken a 
country, and we need billions of dollars to rebuild while we are 
neglecting our own needs here at home. The House leadership has been 
rebuked and the administration has led us in the wrong direction. A 
change is definitely needed.

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