[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6032]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    MOURNING THE DEATHS IN FALLUJAH

  (Mr. ISRAEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, if we wanted to understand the line that 
divides good versus evil, it was drawn in Fallujah yesterday.
  Four people were providing security to deliver food to the people of 
Fallujah, and some of the people that they were seeking to feed killed 
them, mutilated them, massacred them.
  Mr. Speaker, today's Wall Street Journal said this of the situation 
in Iraq: ``It is not a good sign that Iraqis feel free to mutilate the 
bodies of dead Americans in front of the world's TV cameras.'' Then it 
goes on to say, ``A year without justice has also been a year without 
enough deterrence, and Fallujans now have more reasons to fear the 
consequences of working with the Americans than the consequences of 
killing them.''
  Today we mourn the deaths of four people who believed in a better 
world.
  In the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department, we must 
redouble efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes are 
punished. Justice will lead to security, security will lead to 
stability, stability will lead to democracy, and democracy will bring 
again justice and liberty for all.

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