Sam Farr: “I rise with concern and dismay on the Resolution before us. First of all it resolves a sense of the House of…”

“I rise with concern and dismay on the Resolution before us. First of all it resolves a sense of the House of Representatives. How can you have a sense of the entire House when it only has Republican authors? How can it be a sense of the House with not a single Democrat as a co-sponsor? This Resolution seems to provide political cover for the President for failing to secure support from our major Western allies in the War on Terrorism in Iraq. This Resolution ignores the fact that we had no post-conflict reconstruction plan, before the first bombs dropped. The Resolution glosses over the fact that our investigators, along with the United Nations inspectors, have found no weapons of mass destruction and were denied more time to complete their inspections, which could have obviated the need to go to war. The world is not safer and adoption of this politicized resolution won't make it so. No, the world is not safer and to get Congress to say that it is, is hypocrisy at its worst.”