Political Quotes

“one of the most telling periods of time when I was there was our visit to the Abu Ghraib prison, and while that prison has gotten a certain amount of notoriety because of the abuse by our troops, a very small number of people, of Iraqi detainees, the larger story that I took away from it is what I saw in that prison. When you walk through the execution chamber, when you go through the torture chambers, and when you see the barbaric nature of those facilities, and the fact that in this one prison, 80,000 Iraqis were first tortured and then executed, it was a life-altering experience for me and, I think, the other Members of Congress who were there to have been in that room where so many souls were so cruelly murdered. I left, from that experience, I think, a very changed person, having seen that kind of depraved behavior and the aftermath of it; and certainly when I have come home and had the opportunity throughout New Hampshire to talk to people about that, it has been a pretty telling experience. I had a video camera with me and took an actual picture of the execution chamber and how it worked. We were shown the grizzly details.…”