[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       REGARDING THE WAR IN IRAQ

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask my good friend from 
Georgia how many of the military families has he engaged. How many has 
he asked why there is a blackout on allowing America to mourn with them 
as their loved ones' flagged-draped coffins come home to America. How 
many administration officials have deigned to go to the funeral and to 
give to the family some comfort?
  I know military families. They want this war to end with dignity, 
yes; but they want some people to be responsible for the travesty of 
what is going on. And so I ask in light of the fact that we want to 
blame the troops because of what happened in the prison, I do not want 
to blame them. They are young. They are 19, 20, 21. I demand for there 
to be some heads to roll. And Secretary Rumsfeld is the one that needs 
to roll along with his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.
  I ask the Speaker of the House to demand an open session here on the 
floor of the House for Secretary Rumsfeld to come and tell us why he 
was hiding reports for 2 months, why no one knew about the reports, and 
why these kinds of heinous and ridiculous acts are going on. We want 
peace over war, but this administration went to war with untruth. Now 
it is time for people like Secretary Rumsfeld to wash his hands of the 
tragedy of this and resign. This is the time that we should start anew.

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