John Mica: “I did not plan to use these 5 minutes; but as we hear Bush-bashing and bashing of the Republicans as you walk through…”

“I did not plan to use these 5 minutes; but as we hear Bush-bashing and bashing of the Republicans as you walk through the Halls of our Chambers here, I think it is appropriate that we do take a minute to respond. We just heard more Bush-bashing about accusations of torture in Iraq. I wonder where some of these same people were when Abu Ghraib prison had the torture of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and other people in that society who had their limbs lopped off, who were taken to the precipice outside of the prison and lined up, to deal with prison-crowding. A former Iraqi prisoner told some of us Members of Congress they would line up the prisoners and then shoot them in front of a ditch and then bury them. One escaped who had been shot several times and he told us that story. The Bush administration has wanted to stop the torture of people in that prison and the loss of life in that country. They do not want to talk about the 300,000 mass graves that we have uncovered in that country, the slaughter of his own people that Saddam Hussein conducted. Then we heard the previous speaker talk about how bad things are in America under the Bush administration and Bush policy. They did not tell us that under the policy of President Bush we have actually, in just this last fiscal year that ended the end of September, we have $100 billion in additional revenue into the United States Treasury. That is a plan of failure?…”