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




                    MISTREATMENT OF IRAQI PRISONERS

  (Mr. ISSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, the one bipartisan thing that we can all agree 
on today that we will address in a resolution today is that the conduct 
which we have all witnessed in pictures spread around the world by a 
few misguided and perhaps sadistic and criminally accountable young men 
and women in charge of prisoners of war was wrong. There is no debate 
on that. There is no debate outside the American military. There is no 
debate inside the Congress that this was wrong.
  But I do believe it is important, Mr. Speaker, for the American 
people to understand that every soldier is instructed that this is 
unacceptable. Every officer is trained that this is unacceptable. From 
my experience both as an enlisted man and as an officer, the military 
will see that these individuals who were instructed that this was not 
acceptable and then broke the regulations will be punished. This 
Congress will oversee that. That is a word that the people of the Arab 
world need to understand, that the people of Iraq need to understand. 
Things have changed. This Congress will not tolerate this behavior.

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