Thomas Foley: “I support the rule, and I support the bill and the fine work of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), the chairman of…”

“I support the rule, and I support the bill and the fine work of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), the chairman of our committee; and I am certain that sometime today we are going to hear more about Abu Ghraib prison. I want to put things in context about the politics of what this town has become. Mr. Speaker, I stand amazed and disappointed in the self-righteous, politically motivated diatribes coming from the other side about Abu Ghraib for the last several months. The guilty parties in the Abu Ghraib prison incidents are currently before the military justice system. They will be tried and justice will be carried out. This House, the other body, the President, the Vice President, the Secretaries of Defense and State, and the National Security Adviser have all gone on record to express outrage over the abuses at the prison, as they should have. But what I find especially appalling is the deafening silence from the other side following the savage beheadings of American civilians Nick Berg and Paul Johnson.”