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Iraqi Independent Women's Group Comes to Washington
Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Florida talked about stories we will not read in the New York Times. Let me talk about another one.
Today, Mr. Speaker, 20, 25 women from the country of Iraq are here on the Hill talking with various Members of the House of Representatives, and their stories are so very poignant.
I just left a meeting with them, and I needed to share some of their words with my colleagues. To the question: What about the fact that America might have gone to war with Iraq under false pretenses? The first woman who raised her hand said, ``What took you so long?'' A woman who is a city leader in Karbala said 48 people in her family have been executed, and to this day they do not know where most of those family members are buried. She said to us, ``Why would you even ask this question?'' Another woman said, ``Chemical warfare has been used on my family. So many have been lost. We don't know where they have gone. You should have been here in 1991. Liberation was late. We were left to be tortured.''
On the subject of Fallujah, one woman stood up and very powerfully said, ``Please finish the job.'' I could not agree more.
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