[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26261-26262]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SETTING THE HISTORICAL RECORD STRAIGHT

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to set the historical record 
straight. As my colleague Jeb Hensarling recently stated, ``Everyone is 
entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts.''
  Prior to the war, Members of Congress had access to the same 
intelligence as the administration did, and it was determined that 
Saddam Hussein posed a serious threat to the United States.
  The 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force received 
overwhelming bipartisan support, but now some make it seem otherwise. 
Charges being leveled at this administration that somehow prewar 
intelligence reports were manipulated are false and unworthy of this 
body.

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  The facts are clear. The 2004 Senate Intelligence Committee report 
stated that there was no evidence of manipulated intelligence in 
relation to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities. The 
bipartisan Robb-Silbermann commission in 2005 reached the same 
conclusion.
  Attempts to distort these facts are an attempt to revise history. 
Doing so undercuts the efforts of our troops and undermines our 
national security.

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