[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13409]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 GITMO

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, over the past week, we have watched as 
those across the aisle, led by Minority Leader Pelosi and Senator 
Durbin, made comments regarding our troops, our war on terror, and our 
operations at Guantanamo Bay. Apparently, to some in this body, America 
can do nothing right.
  But I want Americans to remember that months ago, these people who 
are now calling Iraq and the war on terror a disaster were declaring 
that the elections would not be a total success, that they would be a 
failure. Now, are these folks seeking success, or are they seeking 
failure?
  The critics today say they hate Guantanamo Bay. Do we want to be 
running Guantanamo Bay? No. But you know what, we have to remember, 
there are people who would like to murder Americans by the thousands. 
Have we forgotten September 11?
  We cannot sanction their homelands because they do not operate as 
part of a national military. Thus we are forced to run Guantanamo Bay. 
Americans get captured by the terrorists and they are slaughtered, they 
are beheaded; and we have seen the photos. That is not what we do to 
the enemy combatants at Guantanamo, and the idea that the two can be 
compared is reprehensible.

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