[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, instead of bringing our troops home from 
Iraq, today our majority party is advocating sending billions more to 
Iraq to keep our troops there indefinitely. Instead of winding down 
operations in Iraq, today the administration will receive money to help 
build permanent bases in Iraq. At a time when the American people are 
waking up to the disaster of the war in Iraq, this House is going to 
sleep. Wake up.
  The administration manufactured intelligence to take us into war in 
Iraq. Wake up. The flower of America's youth is being sent to battles, 
spilling their blood to find weapons of mass destruction which did not 
exist. Wake up.
  Mr. Speaker, $270 billion going for a war based on a lie while 
America's educational systems are crumbling, while 47 million Americans 
are without health insurance, while our inner cities have high 
unemployment, while oil companies are gouging Americans for $2 to $3 a 
gallon for gasoline. Wake up, my friends. Let us get out of Iraq.
  Mr. Speaker, let us bring our troops home. Let us hold the 
administration accountable for the lies that took us into Iraq. Redeem 
the faith our Founders had in this House.

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