[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 12, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     ENCOURAGING THE RELEASE OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF IRAQI PRISONER ABUSE

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, despite the horrendous acts of a few American 
soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison, we are winning the war in Iraq. We are 
investigating and punishing those among our own engaged in wrongdoing. 
And as the brutality and desperation of yesterday's beheading of an 
American attest, our enemies know they are losing.
  While I support freedom for the good people of Iraq, I support 
President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld, I respectfully encourage the 
administration to bring an end to the lurid parade of photographs 
leaking their way into the national media by immediately releasing all 
photographic records of abuse of prisoners by American personnel.
  Abraham Lincoln said it best: ``Give the people the facts, and the 
Republic will be saved.'' In this case, Mr. Speaker, the republic that 
we save may be that free and democratic republic of Iraq in the 21st 
century.

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