Phil Gingrey: “continuing on the line of reason the gentleman from Michigan is presenting, again Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…”

“continuing on the line of reason the gentleman from Michigan is presenting, again Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1998, in fact, November 23, and this was in Time Magazine: ``Up to now we've had diplomacy backed by force. Now we need to shift to force backed by diplomacy.'' And listen to what she says less than a month later: ``Month after month we have given Iraq chance after chance to move from confrontation to cooperation, and we have explored and exhausted every diplomatic action. We will see now whether force can persuade Iraq's misguided leaders to reverse course and to accept at long last the need to abide by the rule of law and the will of the world.'' These were remarks made by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the night of the air strikes, the very limited air strikes, against strategic targets in Iraq, her comments made December 16, 1998. What happened over the next 2 years? Nothing. These limited air strikes did nothing, and Saddam continued with his weapons of mass destruction, his terrorism on his own people, his refusal to let the weapons inspectors come back into the country and make sure he was complying with the U.N. resolutions.”