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Uncovering Saddam Hussein's Legacy of Terror

Date: March 18, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs


UNCOVERING SADDAM HUSSEIN'S LEGACY OF TERROR -- (House of Representatives - March 18, 2004)

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

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in cooperation with the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), the Committee on Armed Services chairman, I recently sent every Member of the House a copy of "Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves," a report that highlights the worst human rights atrocity of Saddam Hussein's regime. Hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqis, including women holding their children with bullet holes, lie in at least 270 mass grave sites around the country.

Saddam's mass graves represent a crime against humanity surpassed in scope only by the World War II Nazi Holocaust, Pol Pot's Cambodian communist killing fields in the 1970s, and the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Thanks to the leadership of President Bush and the valor of the American military, along with our international allies, Iraqis no longer live in fear of Saddam's brutal regime. Today, the Coalition Provisional Authority is working with thousands of Iraqi families to identify and rebury their loved ones.

In conclusion, may God bless our troops, and we will never forget September 11.

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