WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
released the following statement today on President Bush's speech to the
United Nations:
"Eighteen months ago, President Bush launched an invasion of Iraq that he
justified on the assertion that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction
posed an imminent threat to the United States. But at the United Nations
today, with no weapons of mass destruction having been found in Iraq, the
President justified the invasion by asserting that Saddam posed a 'grave and
gathering danger' to the United States.
"The President has dramatically shifted his rationale and is now saying
that a desire by Saddam to acquire weapons of mass destruction in the future
was a sufficient reason to invade Iraq. That is an enormous change from what
he told the American people at the time of the war. The President is now
offering excuses, not reasons.
"Throughout our history, the United States has resorted to the use of
force only as a last resort. The President's reckless and dangerous policy
turns that doctrine on its head, and its implications are staggering.
"This was a war of choice and the President chose its timing, giving him a
greater responsibility to plan thoroughly. Unbelievably and unconscionably,
he still sent our men and women into harm's way without the proper equipment."
SOURCE Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
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