During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq savagely tortured American POWs, inflicting beatings, starvation, electric shock, whipping, mock executions, threatened castration and dismemberments, horrifying genital inspections, broken bones and eardrums, deprivation of medical care, and confinement in vile, disease-ridden filth. These actions were condemned by Congress in three resolutions.
Despite what these men and their families endured, each returned to active service following the war to continue defending the United States, as eight still do to this day.
When the POW group and their families conceived of this effort and determined that they would go forward, no one would have guessed that, after offering international arbitration to Iraq and gathering the evidence of the crimes committed, the group would be fighting its own government in order to hold the perpetrators of torture accountable.
The 109th Congress will be one in which the United States’ commitment to its fighting men and women in Iraq remains a focal point. We ask that one aspect in particular of that commitment receive the legislative action it deserves this term: support for the American POWs tortured by the Iraqi government during the 1991 Gulf War.
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