Spencer Cox: “This is a disgrace. This country led an international effort to end the regime of a cruel dictator who abused his…”

“This is a disgrace. This country led an international effort to end the regime of a cruel dictator who abused his people. Now men and women wearing the American uniform have abused Iraqis. The injury they have caused does not end with the Iraqi prisoners. They have undermined the war effort. They have risked its success as surely as if they sold military secrets to the terrorists. They have humiliated our Nation more gravely than mere terrorists ever could. They have dishonored every brave American soldier who has lost or risked his life in the war effort and to help the people of Iraq. They have wasted the effort of those brave Americans who have rehabilitated more than 1,700 schools in Iraq. They have squandered the work of a global coalition that has delivered more than 25,000 tons of pharmaceuticals and supplies to health care facilities in Iraq and vaccinated over 70 percent of children in Iraq against polio, tuberculosis, measles, and diphtheria. If ever justice could be swift, let it be now. If ever the punishment could fit the crime, let it be now. If ever our Nation needed the prayers and support of men and women of goodwill, it is now. The success and survival of liberty depend upon it.”