[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            DAY OF RECKONING

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, by now everyone has heard the latest 
revelations that Saddam destroyed his stockpile of chemical and 
biological munitions in 1991, 13 years before the President needlessly 
took us into war. Saddam disarmed himself in 1991 because the economic 
sanctions were working. The evidence was there but the die had been 
cast.
  The President was going to war. The details were merely inconvenient. 
The American people have hard new evidence proving once again that 
there was no justification for taking the U.S. to war against Iraq. 
Americans will believe it. The administration will deny it as usual. 
Every time he does, the President faces a fundamental issue in this 
campaign: it is the credibility of the Commander in Chief. The 
President can deny that he blundered into war. He cannot deny that more 
Americans know it.
  The day of reckoning is coming. In 26 days this President will not be 
able to deny that he was just voted out of office.

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