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Joe Cunningham: “I tell my colleague, a POW was mentioned by the gentlewoman from Missouri. There was a POW that cannot say that. He spit…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2002
I tell my colleague, a POW was mentioned by the gentlewoman from Missouri. There was a POW that cannot say that. He spit in the face of one of the Cuban interrogators while he was being tortured. The Cuban took out his pistol and blew his brains out. I go to the POW meetings every single year, and I will tell my colleagues that is not, that is not their policy, to open up Cuba.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing the treatment of POWs and U.S. policy towards Cuba.

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