[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22093]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   EXPERTS PROVE HUSSEIN WAS A THREAT

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, Charles Duelfer, the chief 
of the Iraq Survey Group, said in testimony before Congress that Saddam 
Hussein had plans to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction, 
waiting for the sanctions to erode. In June 4, Mr. Duelfer told me that 
threat analysis while I visited him in Baghdad. This comes after former 
weapons inspector David Kay said earlier this year that Saddam was more 
of a serious threat than we thought.
  As President Bush said yesterday, Saddam Hussein retained the 
knowledge, the materials, the means and intent to produce weapons of 
mass destruction; and he could have passed that knowledge on to our 
terrorist enemies. After September 11, we learned we could no longer 
wait until threats became imminent. If we had waited to liberate Iraq, 
sanctions may have been lifted, and by that time he may have acquired 
the weapons that he so desperately wanted. Removing Saddam's brutal, 
terror-sponsoring regime was the right thing to do at the right time.
  Mr. Speaker, we need a courageous President that will continue to 
protect American families by stopping the enemies at the source in the 
war on terrorism to reduce the threat of warfare in American 
neighborhoods.
  In conclusion, may God bless our troops. We will never forget 
September 11.

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