[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14527]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FUTURE CONGRESSES WILL ASK

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, the President will address the Nation 
tonight on Iraq.
  At some point in the future, Members of a future Congress will look 
back at the war in Iraq and ask how we could have let it happen. They 
will ask why did our leaders try hard to convince the American people 
that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 when it did not. They will ask 
why did our government use awesome destructive power against the people 
of Iraq who posed no imminent threat to our Nation, and did not attack 
us.
  They will ask how our leaders were able to convince us to stay in 
Iraq for so many years at the cost of so many lives. They will ask why 
there was no discussion about the countless deaths of innocent Iraqi 
civilians. They will ask why our leaders talked us into spending money 
for an unnecessary war when so many real needs for education and health 
care were unmet. They will ask how did we let fear so penetrate our 
hearts and our psyches that we forgot who we were, that we forgot our 
duty to justice, that we forgot our duty to liberty, that we forgot our 
duty to truth.

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