Trent Franks: “Mr. Speaker, as we begin to discuss some of the new events that are taking place in Iraq, I thought it might be good to…”

“Mr. Speaker, as we begin to discuss some of the new events that are taking place in Iraq, I thought it might be good to review some of the circumstances that brought us there in the first place. Mr. Speaker, with all of the discussion lately regarding the search for weapons of mass destruction, regarding the Abu Ghraib prison issue, sometimes I think we forget what our basic reason was for going into Iraq. After September 11, this country recognized that it had entered into a different age, and the wars that we fought in the past and the Cold War we had an enemy that we recognized for who they were. We recognized that they had a capability that was incredibly dangerous to the freedom of the United States of America. We knew their capability, Mr. Speaker; but we did not always know their intentions.”