[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          REVISIONIST HISTORY

  (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, here is a quote: Others have 
talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has 
chemical weapons. He has biological weapons, and he is trying to get 
nuclear weapons.
  That is not President Bush. That is Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi. But 
now what we are seeing is some revisionist history, and this Monday 
morning quarterbacking is a disservice to all of America.
  Remember Secretary Colin Powell's testimony in front of the U.N. on 
February 5, 2003? One of the things that was never questioned was a 
tape that he played. It was between an Iraqi colonel and an Iraqi 
general. The colonel says, About this committee that is coming, and he 
is talking about the U.N. nuclear weapons committee. And the general 
says, Yeah, I am worried that you have got something left. And the 
colonel says, We have evacuated everything. We don't have anything 
left.
  Now, what were they talking about, Mr. Speaker? What were they 
talking about?
  It is no wonder that both Republicans and Democrats both voted to go 
to war. Both had the same intelligence and both saw the writing on the 
wall. Disagreeing about current policy is one thing, but changing 
historical fact is the tired, old, petty, partisan politics of the 
past.

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