Ed Markey: “when George Bush came to this Chamber after a successful campaign in destroying the designs which Saddam Hussein had on…”

“when George Bush came to this Chamber after a successful campaign in destroying the designs which Saddam Hussein had on Kuwait, he came to this Chamber and we rose as one, not Democrat, not Republican, not liberal, not conservative. We stood to praise our Commander-in-chief. We did not say, Mr. President, how could April Glasbie, your ambassador to Iraq, have told those people we would have no protest if you had designs on Kuwait? Which she did. We could have said, Mr. President, how could you have not detected the gas centrifuge technology that he was using for nuclear weapons? How could you have voted to condemn Israel in the U.N. for bombing the Osirak nuclear power plant? How could you have not killed the Red Guard when you had a chance? How could you have not wiped out Saddam Hussein when you had a chance? We did not do that. We praised George Bush, after a successful military campaign, as our Commander-in-Chief. The majority in this House should be ashamed. They continue this pathology of bitter hatred of the President at the expense of our country.”