[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 5]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TREATMENT OF DETAINEES

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, now comes the usual liberal cadre of 
bleeding hearts in America lead by the former Attorney General, Ramsey 
Clark, saying we are mistreating the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
  I just returned from Quetta, Pakistan. Quetta is an interesting city, 
population around 200,000; and yet, it has been swelled by refugees 
from Afghanistan by 500,000 people, kids who are illiterate; kids who 
do not have any opportunity to have education; people who do not have 
work; 7 percent who have running water. And yet these victims of wars 
because of the Taliban and these wicked criminals who are in Guantanamo 
Bay must suffer.
  What about the victims in America, those who lost loved ones and the 
families, who had their first bitter Christmas alone this year? What 
about them?
  What does Attorney General Clark think in the morning? His passion 
goes out to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, yet never a thought about 
all the refugees, over 3 million refugees in Iran and Pakistan, out of 
Afghanistan, never a thought about the victims in the United States of 
America.
  What is more important? Getting the headline one more time and 
showing the world what you are all about. Well, I am glad most of 
America has common sense and are wisely ignoring such allegations as 
the unfair treatment of prisoners. We have better things to do. We have 
a war to fight. We have to move on.

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