[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 159 (Tuesday, December 13, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H11337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE KING OF TYRANNY

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, on this day 2 years ago, United States soldiers 
found the king of tyranny, Saddam Hussein, hiding in a hole like a rat 
near Tikrit, Iraq. His trial recently started, and it is more public 
than some American trials because it is carried on international 
television. He pontificates about how he is unjustly treated. He tries 
to portray himself as an honorable person. This is the same dreadful 
demon dictator that tortured and murdered his own citizens and caused 
years of chaos and calamity in his own country.
  Witnesses in the trial have described rapes, beatings, and electric 
shock torture carried out by his relentless regime. But the news 
stories focus on his outrageous court behavior instead of his years of 
vicious violence and mayhem. The people of the world deserve a record 
of his atrocities, not the senseless stories of his bad courtroom 
attitude, his disruptions, and his disrespectful and disgraceful 
demeanor. The caged rodent known as Saddam Hussein can protest all he 
wants, but even the likes of him now receives a fair trial. Justice 
will soon be served, and he will be punished like the rat that he is. 
We call this justice system democracy.
  That's just the way it is.

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