[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19766]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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PRESIDENT BUSH MISREPRESENTS IRAQ'S IMPACT ON THE OVERALL GLOBAL WAR ON 
                                 TERROR

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, it is nice to see that we really and finally 
are hearing the truth from the Bush administration about the Iraq war 
and its impact on the overall global war on terror. The problem is we 
didn't hear it from the President himself. No. It comes from a top 
secret intelligence document that I am sure the President hoped never 
saw the light of day.
  For the better part of a month now, President Bush has been trying to 
persuade the American people that we are safer today than we were 
before 9/11. This national intelligence report contradicts the 
President's statements and says that the war in Iraq has actually made 
our fight against terrorism even more difficult.
  So the question is, why would the President go out and say we are 
safer if his intelligence agencies refute these claims? Either 
President Bush has not personally read the top secret report or he is 
not leveling with the American people about the real worldwide threat 
we continue to face and how Iraq has made those threats even worse.

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