[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12498-12499]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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            UPDATING VICE PRESIDENT ON EVENTS IN REAL WORLD

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday in Florida, the Vice President 
reasserted that there were connections between Saddam Hussein, he said, 
long established ties between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. This has 
been proven wrong, and woefully wrong, many times. But as recently as 
this morning, the 9/11 Commission issued a breaking story saying it is 
now clear there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda as 
it relates to 9/11.
  I do not know how the Vice President of the United States of America 
can be so sorrowfully misinformed or has decided to misinform the 
public. Neither quality is worthy of the Vice President of the United 
States of America.
  Now, I do not know what it is going to take to help the Vice 
President shake him of this delusion. I know in this town in Washington 
some people are firm in their opinions and flexible on their 
principles, but it is now time for us to acknowledge there is no 
connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The war in Iraq was a 
war of choice.

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