[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




SO-CALLED GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM CANNOT BE WON BY MILITARY MIGHT ALONE

  (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, the so-called global war on 
terrorism cannot be won by military might alone. It is a war of ideas 
and philosophies. Terrorism is the tactic used by people who seem to 
hate what the U.S. stands for more than they love life itself. But it 
is hard to hate the concepts of justice, individual freedoms and human 
rights.
  The problem is that as long as our enemies can claim that we deny 
justice and abuse human rights and individual freedoms, we lose ground 
in this war of ideas. In fact, as long as we maintain the Guantanamo 
Bay detention facility, we undermine our standing, our credibility, 
throughout the world.
  This is not what America stands for. America stands for the concept 
of habeas corpus and human rights. Guantanamo Bay is unAmerican, and 
that's why it needs to be closed.

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