[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8989]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  STOP SCAPEGOATING ENLISTED PERSONNEL

  (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, because we are Americans, I 
believe that this question should be asked: If another sovereign nation 
in the name of war held prisoners of war who happened to be Americans, 
and unfolding before our eyes were the heinous and horrific pictures 
that we have seen, would it be accepting if the head of that sovereign 
nation stood before his or her people and said that the ultimate person 
of responsibility was doing a superb job?
  I am saddened by the comments of the administration because Secretary 
Rumsfeld has violated his duty. He is in dereliction of duty having not 
informed the Congress or the President when he first heard. He is also 
in dereliction of his duty because the enlisted man that will be tried, 
a scapegoat, was a mechanic being used as a military police. That is a 
decision of Secretary Rumsfeld.
  It is time for a clean sweep; and he must go along with the Deputy 
Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz. The world must understand that we are sorry 
for the horrific acts and stop scapegoating the enlisted personnel.

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