Michael Burgess: “I feel obligated just to make another mention about the situation with the mass graves. I was a private citizen in 1999…”

“I feel obligated just to make another mention about the situation with the mass graves. I was a private citizen in 1999, but I remember the administration and I remember the news media talking about the necessity for going into Kosovo and how desperate that necessity was, because there were mass graves in Kosovo. Well, we went into Kosovo and we won that conflict, but the mass graves somehow never materialized and somehow that was unimportant. But, Madam Speaker, we found those mass graves. Those mass graves were in Iraq. When we were busy in Kosovo, we probably should have been concentrating on the regime of Saddam Hussein. A lot has been made about the weapons of mass destruction and the fact that we have not yet found them. I will tell my colleagues I am impressed, because of the size of the country, with the enormity of that job. But one weapon of mass destruction we have found, and that weapon was the person of Saddam Hussein, and that is attested to by all of the silent voices buried in those mass graves around his country.”