[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16472]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              STAND BY OUR VALUES, IDEALS, AND PRINCIPLES

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, in a recent international survey, 
we find that nations around the world think China could be better 
trusted to lead this world than the United States. It's a devastating 
conclusion. It would not have been the case even 6 years ago.
  It's not that people around the world don't acknowledge our military 
power, but it is our arrogance and the fact that we don't live up to 
our principles and ideals that this survey reflects.
  If we are going to win this so-called global war on terrorism, it is 
not going to be through a military victory. It is going to be because 
we stand by the values and ideals and principles that define us as a 
nation and as a people.
  One of the things that every day undermines those defining principles 
is keeping the Guantanamo detention facility open, keeping hundreds of 
people detained without charging them, without enabling them to know 
what they are charged with and thus being able to defend themselves. 
It's the antithesis of what this country stands for. That detention 
facility needs to be shut down. And we need to regain our rightful 
position as the leader of the free world.

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