[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 15787-15788]
[From the U.S. 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:

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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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