Barbara Boxer: “As usual, my friend is very generous of spirit. Stay the course, modify the course, change the course--we need to change…”

“As usual, my friend is very generous of spirit. Stay the course, modify the course, change the course--we need to change the dynamics of this. Some have suggested tearing down the prison. I think that might be an excellent idea to show our remorse, our sorrow, and our outrage. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures say terrible things, and we by our actions have to undo those pictures. My understanding is that a lot of these people who were conducting themselves in this atrocious fashion were kids. They were never trained. They did not understand. They were told: Just do whatever you have to do to get people to talk. I do not know if that is all true. We will get to the bottom of it. But one thing I do know is, you do not stay on a course when it is not working. We have lost over 700 of our beautiful people, some young, 18, 19, some 30, 40 years old leaving behind children. Some 3,000 plus have been wounded. And why doesn't Paul Wolfowitz know these numbers? What is wrong with him that he doesn't know these numbers? It is wrong. These are lives. These young people are not just some faceless, nameless cutout of a soldier. Mr. President, I am so filled with sadness. Every time I come to the Senate floor to read the name of Californians who have died--I know they are the best.”