[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5041]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION

  (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, telling the truth and facing the 
consequences in the Bush White House has become truth and consequences.
  General Shinseki, retired Army Chief of Staff, said occupying Iraq 
would require several hundred thousand troops, and was forced to 
resign.
  Marine Commander General Zinni said there were greater priorities 
than Iraq; Zinni was not reappointed as Middle East adviser.
  Larry Lindsey, the President's chief economic adviser, said the war 
in Iraq would cost $200 billion; he was fired.
  John DiIulio, former director of Faith-Based Initiatives, said there 
was no policy apparatus in the White House and was forced to quit.
  Our chief Medicare actuary knew the real cost of the Medicare bill 
and was told there would be extreme consequences for insubordination.
  Paul O'Neill, the former Secretary of the Treasury, criticized the 
tax cuts as stated in ``The Price of Loyalty'' and what they would do 
to the fiscal order in the United States; he was fired.
  Joe Wilson challenged the claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from 
Africa; his wife, an undercover CIA agent, was outed.
  And now Dick Clarke joins a list of officials whose character was 
assassinated for telling the truth, truth and consequences in the Bush 
administration.

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