[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2741]
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                              CLEAN HOUSE

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the world is watching and waiting. As bad 
as it is, things will get much worse if the President and the Pentagon 
continue to hope it will go away. We need new leadership and a new 
policy right now. Release every photograph and every videotape. Get it 
all out in the open. America's only hope for restoring credibility is 
to demonstrate with its actions, not words, that we will face the truth 
and punish everyone responsible. We have not done that. All these ``I 
am sorries'' are not working.
  Instead, the administration has launched another ill-conceived 
offensive to save one of its own. We can see it on television today as 
they testify before the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Throw some 
soldiers overboard and hope the world believes they acted alone.
  Mr. Speaker, by all accounts, the soldiers arrived in Iraq as good, 
decent people. Who thinks that now, either of the soldiers or America?
  Clean house, from the top down, not just Mr. Rumsfeld. I see them 
greasing the skids; the President is 1,000 percent behind him. There 
are some other people that ought to go with him: Wolfowitz and a few 
others.

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