[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 80 (Thursday, June 16, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S6671]
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                           PRISONER TREATMENT

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I listened with great attention to the 
minority leader. I want to state to the Senate, as I listened I had one 
question that went through my mind. I am in no way--I have not been 
studying Guantanamo, in terms of hearings and the like. But some of our 
leading officials, in whom I have great confidence--the generals who 
speak, the Vice President--are asking the question, What would we do 
with those people, those prisoners?
  I guess it would be interesting for those who are very concerned 
about the issue to think with us a minute. What about the other side? 
What do they do with their prisoners? They don't have any problems, 
right? They kill them. We have been watching that. They hold them as 
hostages, tell the whole world about it, and then the next day they say 
cut off their heads. That is how they get rid of people who they think 
are an impediment to what they want to do, those who are fighting their 
cause.
  We don't have that luxury. We pick up these combatants and what do we 
do with them? What are we going to do with them, I ask rhetorically. We 
surely are not going to do what they are doing. We have to do something 
with them and it is not an easy solution. Who wants them? Will we put 
them out and say go home and then they will be out there killing our 
men again?
  It is a very serious proposition, in terms of the United States of 
America having a difficult problem here.
  I understand my time has elapsed.

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