[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         A BAD CASE OF AMNESIA

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I am concerned about some 
Democrats here in Washington. It seems that when it comes to the vote 
on the Iraq war, they have developed a serious case of amnesia. That is 
why I am going to give them a little reminder of what they said 3 years 
ago as they cast the votes they seem to have forgotten.
  A leading liberal Senator from New York argued that ``If left 
unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capability to 
wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop 
nuclear weapons.''
  The Minority Leader in this House emphatically stated, ``Saddam 
Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There is no 
question about that.''
  The Minority Leader in the Senate warned that, ``Saddam Hussein's 
near success with developing a nuclear weapon should be an eye-opener 
for us all.''
  Now, some Democrats want to act as if these statements of support for 
the war never happened. We all remember the line, ``I voted for the war 
before I voted against it.'' It seems like many more Democrats are 
jumping on that bandwagon.

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