[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 354 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 354

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Abu Ghraib prison must be 
     demolished to underscore the United States abhorrence of the 
                   mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 2004

   Mr. Craig (for himself and Mr. Nelson of Nebraska) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Abu Ghraib prison must be 
     demolished to underscore the United States abhorrence of the 
                   mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq.

Whereas the Abu Ghraib prison was used by Saddam Hussein to execute and torture 
        thousands of men, women, and children;
Whereas Saddam and his Special Security Organization oversaw the execution of 
        thousands of political prisoners;
Whereas the Abu Ghraib prison is notoriously known as a death chamber by the 
        Iraqi people;
Whereas the Abu Ghraib prison is arguably the largest and most feared prison in 
        the Arab world;
Whereas it is widely known that one of Saddam's sons, in one day, ordered the 
        execution of 3,000 prisoners at the prison;
Whereas the recent reports of atrocities and abhorrent mistreatment of Iraqi 
        prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison are un-American, do not represent our 
        values, and have sent the wrong message about the United States 
        intentions in Iraq;
Whereas the American people will not tolerate the mistreatment of Iraqi 
        prisoners;
Whereas the American people view this prison as a symbol of evil, and where past 
        cruel torture and mistreatment occurred; and
Whereas the American people would like to rid the world of this evil place where 
        past, and unfortunately current reported mistreatment has occurred: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the Abu Ghraib 
prison, also known as the Baghdad Central Detention Center, be 
completely demolished as an expression and symbolic gesture that the 
American people will not tolerate the past and current mistreatment of 
prisoners.
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