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Paul Ryan: This is a regime that will gouge out the eyes of children to force confessions from their parents and grandparents. This…

On the recordOctober 8, 2002
This is a regime that will gouge out the eyes of children to force confessions from their parents and grandparents. This a regime that will crush all of the bones in the feet of a 2-year-old girl to force her mother to divulge her father's whereabouts. This is a regime that will hold a nursing baby at arm's length from its mother and allow the child to starve to death to force the mother to confess. This is a regime that will burn a person's limbs off to force him to confess or comply. This is a regime that will slowly lower its victims into huge vats of acid, either to break their will or simply as a means of execution. This is a regime that applies electric shocks to the bodies of its victims, particularly their genitals, with great creativity.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Discussing the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during a debate.

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