Let me say, and I talked to the speaker today and I know you are working on this as well, one of the things we would like to do is invite at least a dozen of them to the United States. We may smile about our meetings with the parliamentarians, and they all had own political points of view and so forth, but, first and foremost, every Member of Congress, and I think Americans need to understand, if you are a member of the Iraq parliament, you are a hero. You are someone who has enormous courage.
Gilbert Gutknecht: “Let me say, and I talked to the speaker today and I know you are working on this as well, one of the things we would…”
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