Senate Hearings into possible Iraq war — Transcript

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1. 0:03i believe that a foreign policy
2. 0:05especially one that involves the use of
3. 0:07force cannot be sustained
4. 0:09in america without the infeed
5. 0:12and helps inform the american people
6. 0:14so that we can have a more informed
7. 0:16basis what is the threat from iraq
8. 0:19obviously
9. 0:20to fully answer this question will
10. 0:22require us to have additional enclosed
11. 0:25hearings
12. 0:27well clearly clearly an ideal situation
13. 0:30would be the resumption of arms control
14. 0:33in iraq
15. 0:34inspections and serious arms control
16. 0:38but mr chairman
17. 0:39not if that means the shell game
18. 0:42phony inspections more deceit more
19. 0:45concealment
20. 0:47that would in fact i suggest
21. 0:49be be deeply dangerous providing an
22. 0:53illusion
23. 0:54of security
24. 0:56test
25. 0:57of whether or not a person can be judged
26. 0:58to have committed a crime
27. 1:00and this is
28. 1:01did the accused have the motive the me
29. 1:04if the
30. 1:06decision has to be taken to remove
31. 1:08saddam then i just say this
32. 1:11do it for the right reasons
33. 1:13as you have pointed out mr chairman have
34. 1:15this debate
35. 1:17and make clear to the world what this is
36. 1:19about it is about weapons of mass
37. 1:21destruction but please do not leave out
38. 1:23saddam's
39. 1:25hideous record in terms of human rights
40. 1:27violations
41. 1:28he should be on trial in the hague
42. 1:30alongside milosevic
43. 1:34mr chairman distinguished members um
44. 1:38is to disarm iraq since the inspectors
45. 1:41are charged only with if the inspectors
46. 1:43go back now there is very little human
47. 1:45intelligence that will help them locate
48. 1:47the new weapon sites
49. 1:49spread widely among the government
50. 1:51infrastructure and smaller heart to
51. 1:53detect units the inspectors will have a
52. 1:55hard time locating all the programs
53. 1:57components a recent defector with a
54. 1:59credible information asserted that all
55. 2:02units are built with a backup very often
56. 2:05we confuse the ability to proliferate
57. 2:08with warfighting effects
58. 2:11i would make one point that i think
59. 2:13needs to be made very clearly
60. 2:16iraq might be a far easier opponent than
61. 2:20its four strikes indicate
62. 2:24but it also is potentially a very
63. 2:27serious military opponent indeed
64. 2:32and to be perfectly blunt i think only
65. 2:35fools would bet the lives
66. 2:38of other men sons and daughters
67. 2:41on their own arrogance
68. 2:43and call this force a cake walk or a
69. 2:46speed bump or something that you can
70. 2:49dismiss
71. 2:51of the american people
72. 2:53and so just as we've done important
73. 2:55junctures in our history the foreign
74. 2:57relations