Sue Myrick: “I believe most Americans, as I was, were extremely upset by the images they saw on television of prisoner abuse in Iraq…”

“I believe most Americans, as I was, were extremely upset by the images they saw on television of prisoner abuse in Iraq, and the horrific actions just defy everything that America stands for and Americans stand for: goodness, decency, fairness, compassion. The perpetrators of these dastardly deeds must be swiftly brought to justice and severely punished for their actions. America and our allies liberated Iraq from a despot. Mr. Speaker, our soldiers are very sincerely over there helping to restore basic services to Iraq and make life for the Iraqi people much better, and they are doing it at serious risk to their own lives. A few sick people in the military have set back our efforts for peace in the Mideast and around the world for who knows how long. They have destroyed all of the good relationships our soldiers and others have established in Iraq. And the majority of our service men and women are very good, decent, patriotic Americans, very honorable. So we must not allow these actions by a few to overshadow the goodness of the majority of Americans or of our soldiers, or the effort to win the war on terror. We cannot close the book on terror until we close this chapter on Iraq.”