[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26266-26267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MISUSE OF INTELLIGENCE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I am shocked at how the Bush administration 
will stoop to try and justify their actions prior to the invasion of 
Iraq.
  President Bush decided to use Veterans Day, a day set aside to unite 
our Nation, to deliver a partisan and divisive political speech aimed 
at my colleagues in the House and the Senate.
  Then yesterday, Secretary Rumsfeld came out and tried to blame 
President Clinton for this administration's manipulation of 
intelligence. I have no doubt that this administration cherry-picked 
intelligence.
  Remember all the talk from the war cabinet about imminent mushroom 
clouds here in the United States or Vice President Cheney's reckless 
suggestion that despite all evidence to the contrary that Iraq had ties 
to al Qaeda?
  President Bush called all this criticism ``revisionist history.'' The 
White House and Secretary Rumsfeld can

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keep quoting President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Secretary 
Albright; but they were not the ones who sent thousands of American 
soldiers to war.
  Mr. Speaker, the President owes us an apology. He should level with 
the American people and stop trying to shirk responsibility for his 
flawed Iraq policy.

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