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U.S. Iraq Quotes
By The Associated Press
February 5, 2003, 2:07 PM EST
"The evidence proves that Saddam Hussein has a loaded gun pointed at the civilized world. It is time to take that loaded gun away from this evil tyrant." -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.
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"By going to the United Nations, he (Powell) has made this the world's problem, and not just the problem of the United States of America. The question now is will the Security Council live up to its responsibility." _Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee.
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"For Saddam Hussein's appeasers, no showing of diabolical crimes, documented militarism, and pursuit of mass terror weapons will ever constitute sufficient, so-called 'evidence' to confront his tyrannical regime. For people of common sense, no such additional evidence is needed: terrorists and terror states have to be eliminated." -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
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"Saddam has ignored repeated warnings from the United States and from the international community that he must disarm or face war. We must now demonstrate to those who would harm us that our warnings are not empty words and that we will act decisively to defend ourselves." -- Rep Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of House International Relations Committee.
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Powell's argument "should convince all Security Council members to support a second U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force. ... The the world can see a pattern of deception and concealment on the part of Iraq" and "also gave clear evidence of Iraq's connection with al Qaida." -- Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, top Democrat on Armed Services Committee.
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"People who have seen that evidence and still say, 'I'm still not convinced,' those people are hanging back for political reasons, and not for evidentiary reasons. ... There are some people who don't want to be convinced because they can't politically take the position that the United States is right." -- Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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"After today, no one can deny that Iraq is in material breach of U.N. Resolution 1441. ... We have said all along that if Iraq does not disarm itself, we will do so by force. We now have the proof that Iraq will not do so peacefully."_ Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.
Great stuff. Thanks for posting it.
Excellent posts; thanks. Guess the real fun will begin after Powell testifies tomorrow before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Stay tuned for more reaction tomorrow. Today the Dems are trying how to spin their reaction.