[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 2 (Thursday, January 24, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H41]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TREATMENT OF AFGHAN PRISONERS IN CUBA

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I have heard and read that some people in 
publications in Europe and some members of the European Union have been 
very critical of U.S. treatment of the Afghan prisoners in Cuba. I 
think they are scraping the bottom of the barrel in a vain attempt to 
make themselves feel superior to Americans.
  I wonder how they would feel or how they would respond if they had 
been attacked the way we were on September 11. No country on the face 
of the Earth, Mr. Speaker, has done as much. No nation has even come 
close to doing as much for other countries, as has the United States of 
America.
  These prisoners will live far better as prisoners of the U.S. 
military than they ever would have in the caves of Afghanistan. Even 
more importantly, Mr. Speaker, they will live far better as our 
prisoners than they deserve, after killing thousands of our citizens in 
one of the cruelest ways imaginable.

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