[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       MISMANAGING NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND THE POLITICS OF IRAQ

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Madam Speaker, the President had a historic opportunity 
in 2003. He had the support of the Congress. He had the support of the 
United Nations. We had inspectors in Iraq. It was determined that they 
had no weapons of mass destruction, and yet the President decided to 
invade.
  Just think what would have happened if instead of on that day an 
invasion began, the President said, Let's keep this international 
coalition together. Let's move to Iran with the coalition. Let's ensure 
that they do not have a nuclear weapon.
  Now the new President of Iran is stating that the United States and 
the world will not get in the way of Iran and nuclear weapons. The 
United States is more in danger, Israel is more in danger, the world is 
more in danger, because of the bad decision President Bush made on that 
day in 2003 when he invaded Iraq.
  Instead, we are on the brink of a nuclear Iran and North Korea, and 
we are in a quagmire in Iraq as we referee an insurgency that will 
breakout into civil war as soon as the United States leaves.
  This is a historic mess. The President had a chance for a Nobel Peace 
Prize. Instead, he is going to go down in history as someone who 
completely mismanaged nuclear nonproliferation and the politics of 
Iraq.

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