Steve Pearce: “Liberating Iraq was the right thing to do, and these women had the courage to come here to the United States Congress…”

“Liberating Iraq was the right thing to do, and these women had the courage to come here to the United States Congress and to testify about the evils that have occurred under terrorism, under Saddam Hussein. I think the compelling question that I heard from people who attended the event was, why did the world take so long? Why did you watch millions tortured and hundreds of thousands die before we came? Forty-eight members of one woman's family just cannot be found. She does not even know where they are buried. And we in this country have a press who is trying to indicate that there was no reason to be there. I was especially ashamed when former Vice President Al Gore was quoted as saying, 'The President convinced the country with a mixture of documents that turned out to be forged and blatantly false assertions that Saddam Hussein was in league with al Qaeda.' I am sorry, but Mr. Gore must not have read the comments from the 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, the comments made on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, June 16, this year. Mr. Kean said, 'Yes, there were contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda, a number of them, some of them a little shadowy. They were definitely there.'”