[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 111 (Thursday, August 2, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPARATIONS FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, it is bad enough that Japan attacked 
Pearl Harbor. Reports now confirm that Japanese companies like 
Mitsubishi and Matsui forced American soldiers into slave labor camps, 
many even murdered.
  If that is not enough to eat your Toyota, our VA Secretary said and I 
quote, ``America demands an apology.''
  Beam me up. American prisoners of war from World War II do not 
deserve an apology. They deserve compensation for Japanese war crimes, 
period. I yield back all those Japanese cars on American streets, 
painted and tainted with the blood of prisoners of war, American 
prisoners of war from World War II.

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