[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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       PRESIDENT BUSH USES NATIONALLY TELEVISED SPEECH TO SPREAD 
                             DISINFORMATION

  (Ms. SOLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, just when you thought the Bush administration 
had finally faced reality and admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 
9/11, President Bush uses a nationally televised speech on 9/11 to once 
again blur the lines between the war on terror and the war in Iraq.
  Last week, a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report 
concluded that the U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing 
any link between al Qaeda and Iraq, while the Bush administration 
officials were fabricating links to justify invading Iraq.
  Over the last month, President Bush and Vice President Cheney have 
admitted to the American people there was no link between the terrorist 
attack on September 11 and the Iraq war. Yet, during a nationally 
televised speech on Monday, the President once again had the audacity 
to say that the safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle 
in the streets of Baghdad, once again connecting in many people's minds 
9/11 and Iraq.
  The President can't have it both ways. And on an issue so important 
as this, national security, the President should level with the 
American people and admit it is time to make a change and change the 
course in Iraq.

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