Melvin Watt: “I rise in support of the Lee amendment and encourage my colleagues to support the amendment. I have been very…”

“I rise in support of the Lee amendment and encourage my colleagues to support the amendment. I have been very disappointed with a number of my colleagues who have suggested to me that the Lee amendment is not viable. I submit to them that they must not have read what the Lee amendment says. It simply says that we resolve that the United States should work through the United Nations to seek to resolve the matter of ensuring that Iraq is not developing weapons of mass destruction through mechanisms such as the resumption of weapons inspections, negotiation, inquiry, mediation, regional arrangements and other peaceful means. This is a peace resolution, a desire to do everything that is reasonably possible through peaceful means before we resort to what is really an unviable option, and that unviable option is war. I encourage my colleagues to support the amendment to this resolution.”