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Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 107 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 107 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 148 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2002 No. 129 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, October 7, 2002, at 9:30 a.m. Senate FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2002 The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was APPOINTMENT OF ACTING time until 11:30 a.m. shall be equally called to order by the Honorable MARK PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE divided between the two leaders or DAYTON, a Senator from the State of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The their designees, with Senators per- Minnesota. clerk will please read a communication mitted to speak therein for up to 10 to the Senate from the President pro minutes each. PRAYER tempore (Mr. BYRD). Who yields time? The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John The legislative clerk read the fol- The Senator from Kentucky. Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: lowing letter: Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I rise Gracious God, You have endowed us in support of S.J. Res. 46 to authorize U.S. SENATE, with a thinking brain so we could PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, the use of U.S. Armed Forces against think Your thoughts after You. That is Washington, DC, October 4, 2002. Saddam Hussein’s Regime in Iraq. awesome, Father. You are omniscient; To the Senate: This bipartisan resolution would en- You know everything. You also know Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, able the President to take necessary what is best for our future as a Nation of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby action in order to defend our Nation and our continuing battle with ter- appoint the Honorable MARK DAYTON, a Sen- and our people against Iraq and any ator from the State of Minnesota, to perform other threatening terrorist nation or rorism. This is Your Nation; we are the duties of the Chair. Your people; we are a Nation under ROBERT C. BYRD, organization. Your sovereignty. In response, we President pro tempore. I believe it will pass Congress by make Proverbs 16:3 the motto for this Mr. DAYTON thereupon assumed the broad bipartisan support and send a day, ‘‘Commit Your works to the Lord chair as Acting President pro tempore. signal to the world that America and Your thoughts will be estab- stands united behind our President. f lished.’’ Throughout this day, we inten- This vote will be one of the most im- tionally will submit the work of this RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME portant—if not the most important— Senate to You and seek Your guidance The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- that I or any of my colleagues will ever for the resolution on war with Iraq. We pore. Under the previous order, the take in Congress. claim Your promise for clarified direc- leadership time is reserved. Nothing is more sobering or serious than voting to send troops into battle tion in keeping with Your will. We say f with the psalmist: and committing our Nation to war. I commit my way to the Lord and trust AUTHORIZATION OF THE USE OF As the President said the other day, also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES war is not our first choice. In fact, it is . I rest in the Lord and wait patiently AGAINST IRAQ—MOTION TO PRO- our last choice. for Him—(Psalm 37:5,7). CEED Having this debate and making this Speak to our minds; we are listening. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- vote is something that none of us You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen. pore. Under the previous order, the wants but in the end, I am afraid that we have no other choice. f Senate will now resume consideration of S.J. Res. 45, which the clerk will re- The case against Saddam Hussein is PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE port. clear. We can no longer tolerate him The Honorable MARK DAYTON led the The legislative clerk read as follows: and the threat that he poses not only Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 45) to author- to us, but to his neighbors, the Middle I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the ize the use of United States Armed Forces East and the entire world. United States of America, and to the Repub- against Iraq. To do anything else would be to re- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- peat the mistakes of the past and to indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. pore. Under the previous order, the bury our heads in the sand. ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S9933 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 20:14 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\2002SENATE\S04OC2.REC S04OC2 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S9934 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 4, 2002 After September 11, we cannot afford Many in Congress believe we should This is one time where that old say- to simply sit on our hands. Now is the not use force against terrorist nations ing ‘‘The devil you know is better than time to take bold and decisive action such as Iraq without approval from the the devil you don’t’’ is wrong—dead in our own self-defense. United Nations or our allies. wrong. The arguments against Saddam Hus- I believe this resolution takes the After all, under Saddam’s rule, Iraq sein are compelling, and I believe the right approach and addresses their con- has used nerve gas and other weapons President made a convincing case when cerns. of repression to slaughter tens of thou- he spoke to the United Nations about It says that we should do all we can sands of its own people. Saddam’s contempt for the rest of the to work with our friends and the It used chemical weapons over and world. United Nations to address the menace over during its war with Iran in the Eleven years ago after he was de- of Saddam Hussein. 1980s. feated in the Gulf War, Saddam sus- But it does not tie our hands and pre- Saddam has launched ballistic mis- pended hostilities and agreed to a se- serves our right to act in self-defense. siles at four of his neighbors—Israel, ries of commitments to help bring In trying to resolve tensions with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. peace and stability to the Middle East. Iraq, America has gone the extra mile. He has had his followers assassinate He has broken each of these commit- And I believe that our allies and the opponents in Iraq and abroad. ments. During the Gulf War, his regime beat In 1991, U.N. Security Council Reso- U.N. have done so as well. lution 688 demanded Saddam cease re- We have done all that we can to en- and tortured Americans and used them pression and torture of his own people. sure a peaceful resolution of disputes as ‘‘Human Shields.’’ He broke that promise. with Saddam. And on almost a daily basis Iraq con- Also in 1991, the Security Council And I support Secretary Powell’s tinues to fire missiles and artillery at passed resolutions demanding that Iraq continuing efforts to reach out to the U.S. and coalition aircraft patrolling return all prisoners from Kuwait and security council and the rest of the the no-fly zones in Northern and other lands. Saddam Hussein broke world to find a way to bring peace to Southern Iraq—no-fly zones that Sad- that promise also. the Middle East without using vio- dam agreed to after the Gulf War. The U.N. Security Council, through lence. Looking at the evidence, I cannot Resolution 687, demanded that Iraq re- But I do not believe that in the end imagine anything more destabilizing nounce all involvement with terrorism you can negotiate with a madman. and threatening than the status quo. and permit no terrorist organizations Sooner or later, we are going to have Some say wait and let the U.N. pass to operate in Iraq. Saddam not only to act, and we should pass this resolu- another resolution. They argue that broke that promise, but he continues tion to give the President every tool at more inspections and towing a tougher to harbor terrorists, including al-Qaida his disposal to prevail in this struggle line against Saddam will work this leaders who fled from Afghanistan. with evil. time. Most importantly, after the Gulf I know that some of my colleagues But surely Saddam is not going to War, Iraq promised to destroy and to and many in the world community adhere to the 17th resolution after ig- stop the development of weapons of worry that America is acting without noring the first 16. mass murder and agreed to inspections provocation and that we should not Finally, those who make the argu- by the world community. Once again, preemptively attack another Nation. ment about preemption say we need Saddam Hussein broke that promise. In I have to disagree with them on two more proof—that we can’t act first fact, U.N. officials believe Iraq has pro- grounds. without a smoking gun. duced tons of biological and chemical First, we have already been attacked. Even if they ignore all of the evi- agents and failed to account for more Last September 11 was the bloodiest dence, I would still argue that the last than 3 metric tons of material that day in our history.
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