[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17752]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NOTHING WILL EVER BE MADE STRAIGHT ABOUT U.S. INTERVENTION IN LIBYA

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. This past September 11, four Americans, including our 
Ambassador, were killed in Benghazi.
  The responsibility for security failures has now been placed on the 
State Department. End of story? No. The deeper question is why did the 
U.S. intervene in Libya in the first place.
  Twenty months after a U.S.-led mission to overthrow the Libyan 
Government, militias are still battling in the streets for control; al 
Qaeda-linked groups have a foothold in Libya they did not have before 
U.S. intervention.
  Why did we spend U.S. tax dollars to open the door for al Qaeda in 
Libya? The intervention itself was a disaster, and it makes the case 
that the U.S. Government's policy of intervention in Libya was wrong 
and that everything that proceeds from that intervention is bound to be 
tainted.
  The book of Ecclesiastes says: That which is crooked cannot be made 
straight. Nothing will ever be made straight about U.S. intervention in 
Libya.

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