Angie Craig: “today the Senator from Nebraska and I are introducing a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. I will read it because I think…”

“today the Senator from Nebraska and I are introducing a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. I will read it because I think it is appropriate at this time, when all of us are tremendously frustrated about what has gone on in a certain Iraqi prison. Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Abu Ghraib prison must be demolished to underscore the United States' abhorrence of the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq. Whereas the Abu Ghraib prison was used by Saddam Hussein to execute and torture thousands of men, women and children; Whereas Saddam Hussein and his Special Security Organization oversaw the execution of thousands of prisoners; Whereas Abu Ghraib prison is notoriously known as a death chamber by the Iraqi people; Whereas the Abu Ghraib prison is arguably the largest and most feared prison in the Arab world; Whereas it is widely known that one of Saddam's sons, in one day, ordered the execution of 3,000 prisoners at the prison; Whereas the recent reports of the atrocities and abhorrent mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison are un-American, do not represent our values, and have sent the wrong message about the United States intentions in Iraq; Whereas the American people will not tolerate the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners; Whereas the American people view this prison as a symbol of evil, and where past cruel torture and mistreatment occurred;”