[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7973]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ILLEGAL IRAQ WAR

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, 771 days ago, the United States 
illegally went to war against Iraq. Since then we have lost 1,574 of 
our finest, and the Iraqi people have lost tens of thousands of 
innocent civilians to the war. Some of us opposed the war from the 
start, but today we all know that America went to war based on false 
information given to this Congress and to the American people. Iraq had 
no weapons of mass destruction and was not an imminent threat, yet the 
war grinds on.
  America is building permanent bases in Iraq. The interim government 
has no credibility. Under the watchful eyes of our occupying army, the 
Iraqi people know full well policy is made in Washington, not Baghdad. 
And here in Congress, we move on to other issues, while some are 
calling for more troops to move in.
  The administration built a theater of war with no exits. It is time 
for Congress to build an exit from the Iraqi theater. In the next few 
days, I, along with other Members, will submit such a plan.

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