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Kirk Watson: “Let me say, we are a member of the United Nations. We went to the Security Council. They have their inspectors out…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2003
Let me say, we are a member of the United Nations. We went to the Security Council. They have their inspectors out there. If they do not find what they are looking for, it needs to go back to the Security Council. We are working on an assumption, and North Korea says, we have your bomb. The monies that we give them for food and so on, does it really get to the people? If it did, why do we have such massive starvation over in North Korea? And I do not see why we are treating them any differently than we are treating Iraq. Where is our commitment? How do we secure the United States? A country is only as strong as its people, and we cannot let the general public forget that. I thank the gentleman.
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Kirk Watson
Texas

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. policy towards North Korea and its comparison to Iraq.

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