[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CALLING FOR RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY RUMSFELD

  (Mr. CONYERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I regret to come here this morning to again 
call for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. 
The pictures, the videos that continue of our troops humiliating 
prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the acts of retaliation by Iraqi militants, 
the graphic accounts of sexual and physical abuse that go on and on and 
on, this is not about the failure of some rogue elements in the 
military. Quite the contrary.
  It is a part of the total failure of leadership at our highest 
levels, and I refer my colleagues to The New Yorker magazine article by 
the distinguished investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

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