[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 98 (Thursday, July 15, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H5796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             A STORY WE WILL NOT READ IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Florida talked about 
stories we will not read in the New York Times. Let me talk about 
another one.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, 20, 25 women from the country of Iraq are here on 
the Hill talking with various Members of the House of Representatives, 
and their stories are so very poignant.
  I just left a meeting with them, and I needed to share some of their 
words with my colleagues. To the question: What about the fact that 
America might have gone to war with Iraq under false pretenses? The 
first woman who raised her hand said, ``What took you so long?'' A 
woman who is a city leader in Karbala said 48 people in her family have 
been executed, and to this day they do not know where most of those 
family members are buried. She said to us, ``Why would you even ask 
this question?'' Another woman said, ``Chemical warfare has been used 
on my family. So many have been lost. We don't know where they have 
gone. You should have been here in 1991. Liberation was late. We were 
left to be tortured.''
  On the subject of Fallujah, one woman stood up and very powerfully 
said, ``Please finish the job.'' I could not agree more.

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