[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25983-25984]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           AMERICANS DESERVE THE TRUTH REGARDING WAR IN IRAQ

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last week, President 
Bush said it was irresponsible for people to rewrite the way the war 
began, and the White House communications director said the American 
people expect an honest debate. I could not agree with both statements 
more.
  Then, yesterday, the President donned his flight jacket and suggested 
that he was going to attack his critics and, in fact, attacked his 
critics rather than contribute to the honest debate.
  The American people need to know, after the dramatic failure of 
intelligence, just how that intelligence was used, how it was 
emphasized, how it was manipulated, and who was the source of much of 
the intelligence that this administration used to hook people into the 
war in Iraq.
  Did they use the intelligence provided by Mr. Chalabi, who was on our 
payroll, and by Mr. Chalabi's defectors, who paid and bribed to provide 
that intelligence to the administration? Did

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the administration, and this goes to the crux of the question: Did the 
administration do the due diligence that was necessary before they made 
the decision to put American men and women in harm's way into Iraq? Did 
they look at the case and make the case that this was an imminent 
threat to the security of the United States?
  So far, we do not have the answers to those questions. We know that 
there was a concerted effort within the Department of Defense, within 
the administration to push us into the war in Iraq. We now need to know 
how that was done. We need that honest debate. We do not need the 
President to continue to attack his critics.
  The American people are entitled to that debate. They are entitled to 
the results of the investigations that were promised 17 months ago, and 
nothing has happened from those investigations.

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