Jack Kingston: “I wanted to say we have heard so much from the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), Senator Daschle, and the…”

“I wanted to say we have heard so much from the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), Senator Daschle, and the partisans about the August 6 memo; but there was not a warning in there and it was not a threat report. What it was it was an analysis of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and it talked in general terms about the threat that they posed to general world problems; and they did not mention anything about using aircraft as missiles. It did say they could hijack a plane, but up until then no one had used an airplane as a missile. So all of this stuff sounds really great for Senator Daschle and the Democratic National Committee to sit around and say this is what they should have done, but the reality is nobody knew this information. But, again, if he wants to criticize President Bush; let him attack him for health care, Social Security, whatever, but a war effort while we have soldiers on the ground and a very unstable situation in the Middle East with our ally, Israel, is very poor judgment, not just bad politics but poor judgment.”