Sam Gibbons: “since the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq has violated U.N. sanctions and resolutions 16 times. Sixteen times they…”

“since the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq has violated U.N. sanctions and resolutions 16 times. Sixteen times they have thumbed their nose at the United Nations and their resolutions. Now, I commend President Bush on addressing these issues with the United Nations last Thursday. It is time to enforce all United Nations resolutions, and it is time to put weapons inspectors back in Iraq with unfettered access. This hard line must be taken. Iraq cannot be given another decade to comply. All U.N. resolutions must be enforced, and this cannot be negotiable. Mr. Speaker, if Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, then what are they afraid of? If Iraq complied with the United Nations' resolutions, sanctions would be lifted; and they could make $120 billion a year in their oil sales; but Saddam Hussein has foregone $120 billion a year to hide something. We must have U.N. inspectors inside Iraq, and they must have complete access to see everything to see just what Saddam Hussein is hiding from the rest of the world.”