I wonder if Bob Dornan remembers this statement about the Geneva Conv.?

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IRAQ MUST RETURN PRISONERS IMMEDIATELY (House of Representatives - February 28, 1991)



(Mr. DORNAN of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, I have not been able to feel good about the cessation of hostilities, because I listened carefully to what the President said about keeping open the option of combat if coalition prisoners of war are not returned in a brief period of time.

Life magazine has gone back to a weekly format, and here is a picture of our one known female prisoner of war. I ask you to pay close attention to the Republican who will shortly speak about war crimes trials. He will show pictures of the American pilots who were captured and, against Geneva Convention rules, brutallly beaten.

Not until those POW's are turned over to U.S. Forces in the next few days should we forgo the option of sending the VII Corps up that highway about 120 kliks to Baghdad to begin to make arrests.

I think we may have to do that anyway, if some of these aviators were tortured to death.

I would like to submit for the Record, Mr. Speaker, an article entitled `Pentagon Rules and Instant Communication Have Changed the Way a War Is Reported,' but reporters come off as clumsy villains in the gulf drama. Just look at this disgusting cover of Newsweek, showing a 101st Airborne MP pushing down Iraqis.

Is that the image we have of the gentlemen of the international coalition, including the French, American, and the British soldiers who have taken good care of those poor men sent to be slaughtered by Saddam Hussein? No, sir, a lot of us in this House have a lot of apologizing to do. I beg my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, to be real men and women and come to the lectern and say that they were wrong about sanctions. I will respect them forever, honestly.

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