Joe Wilson: “indeed, I want to reiterate the difference between 1998 and 2002, 2003 is that we have a new President. And I regret, I…”

“indeed, I want to reiterate the difference between 1998 and 2002, 2003 is that we have a new President. And I regret, I feel that the reason that the change in judgment, not patriotism is politics. When we consider how persons are to be judged, I believe what we need to look at is how people vote. Their statements are very significant, but we see statements can be shifted and can have different meaning according to who the President is. I will state that going back on votes, and I want to cite from the Center for Security Policy, which is an organization that was created in 1988. It is nonprofit, nonpartisan, committed to stimulating and informing the national and international debates about all aspects of security policy, notably those policies bearing on foreign defense, economic, financial and technology interest in the United States. According to the Center for National Policy, national security score card, I want to bring up votes and I will go back to 1993. This is the 103rd Congress. The gentleman and I were back in Florida and back in South Carolina. But the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) was right here voting. The significance of 1993 is that when the first significant attack occurred on the United States, that was the first attack on the World Trade Center, we know later that the al Qaeda and the terrorists attacked our country in 1998 by blowing up embassies across Africa killing dozens of innocent people.”