Joe Cunningham: “I am very, very proud of the men and women that serve in our armed services, and I served with in Vietnam and all the…”

“I am very, very proud of the men and women that serve in our armed services, and I served with in Vietnam and all the conflicts up to that point, but time has witnessed a sine wave of activities. In business we had Enron. We have had a Member of this body sexually abuse a page. We have had a Nixon break-in and impeachment of a President. Harassment in our military academies and we look at the scandal in the Catholic church, but Mr. Speaker, there are good people in Enron, there are good Members of Congress. The harassment in our military academies, most of those men and women serve honorably, and the same thing in the Catholic church, but good people is not the question here. The question is what happened in our interrogation facility, and I sit and I questioned myself, what are the key reasons why everybody is so upset? What factors bother us? One thing, leadership at the point of infraction, and secondly, the timeliness.”