[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9027-9028]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TRUTH WILL PREVAIL

  (Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday afternoon for 
2\1/2\ hours, I met with one of our soldiers from the unit that was 
assigned to the prison in Baghdad. I can tell Members that as this 
story unfolds, we will continue to be vigilant in prosecuting not just 
those soldiers who were involved, but those superiors who in some cases 
ordered our soldiers to do the acts that they were asked to do and to 
also be involved in the oversight. We will hold

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these individuals responsible, and we will seek and obtain justice.
  But, Mr. Speaker, I also rise to pay tribute to a neighbor of mine, 
who lived less than 15 minutes from my home by the name of Nick Berg 
who we just learned in the past several days was brutalized in the most 
unbelievable way imaginable by those same people over in Iraq who 
expect us to treat those perpetrators of crimes in the prison with 
justice.
  I also rise to pay tribute to Tali Hatuel, an Israeli who was gunned 
down, along with her four children and her unborn child, in the most 
despicable way. Truth and justice will prevail. I just wish that were 
the case on both sides both with al Qaeda as well as with our own 
troops.

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