Phil Gingrey: “if the gentleman will yield, pointing out the attack on the U.N. Embassy in Baghdad where most of the deaths were Iraqi…”

“if the gentleman will yield, pointing out the attack on the U.N. Embassy in Baghdad where most of the deaths were Iraqi citizens, and, of course, the Ambassador from Brazil who had spent his entire professional life in trying to promote humanitarian efforts not just in Iraq, but in many, many countries, and for them to just come in and blow up that U.N. Embassy, and what was the U.N. doing in Baghdad? They were not a fighting force, they were just there for humanitarian reasons, that is all; in fact, so humanitarian that they refused to defend that facility. They did not want it to be guarded. They did not want it to appear that they were in any way there as a fighting force. And look what happened to them. As the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Kennedy) has pointed out, this killing is wanton, it is indiscriminate, and so they are not just attacking our fighting men and women, the United States troops, it is their own people. And it is this reign of terror that we are having to deal with, and it is something that just could not stand, and we had to bring an end to that, and we are going to have to continue.”