September 16, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11561 New Mexico: Ms. Dora Marroquin, State Tennessee: Ms. Janis Kyser, State There being no objection, the mate- Facilitator; Representative Rick Miera, New Facilitator; Senator Randy McNally, Ten- rial was ordered to be printed in the Mexico House of Representatives; Ms. Vir- nessee State Senate; Representative Beth RECORD, as follows: ginia Trujillo, State of New Mexico Office of Harwell, Tennessee House of Representa- the Governor; Dr. Joseph Stewart, Professor, tives; Representative Joe Towns, Jr., Ten- [DSCC Iraq Policy Forum, Washington, DC, University of New Mexico. nessee House of Representatives; Mr. Rich- Sept. 15, 2003] New York: Professor Stephen Schechter, ard Ray, Chairman State School Board; Mr. DISASTER IN THE DESERT State Facilitator; Ms. Rita Lashway, Deputy Bruce Opie, Legislative Liaison, Department (Former Senator Max Cleland, D–Georgia) Executive Director, New York State School of Education; Dr. Ashley Smith Jr., Presi- ‘‘The public had been led into a trap from Boards Association; Mr. A. Thomas Levin, dent Tennessee Middle School Association. which it will be hard to escape with dignity President, New York State Bar Association; Texas: Mrs. Jan Miller, State Facilitator; and honor. They have been tricked into it by Ms. Gail Kelly, President, New York Council Judge Royal Furgeson, U.S. District Court a steady withholding of information,’’ he of Educational Associations. Judge, Western District of Texas; Mr. George North Carolina: Ms. Debra Henzey, State Rislov, Director of Social Studies, Texas said. ‘‘The Baghdad communiques are be- Facilitator; Senator Joe Sam Queen, North Education Agency; Mr. Hugh Akin, Execu- lated, insincere, incomplete. Things have Carolina Senate; Representative Linda John- tive Director, Hatton W. Sumner Founda- been far worse than we have been told, our ston, North Carolina House of Representa- tion; Ms. Carlen Floyd, State Board for administration more bloody and inefficient tives; Ms. Maria Theresa Unger Palmer, Teacher Certification; Ms. Patricia Ann than the public knows. He added: ‘‘We are Member North Carolina Board of Education; Hardy, Member State Board of Education. today not far from a disaster’’—T.E. Law- Ms. Susan Giamportone, North Carolina Bar Utah: Ms. Kathy Dryer, State Facilitator; rence The Sunday Times of London August Association; Ms. Tracey Greggs, Department Chief Justice Christine M. Durham, Utah Su- 22, 1920. of Public Instruction Social Studies Section; preme Court; Senator Howard A. Stephen- Let me see if I can get this straight. Ms. Carol Vogler, Career Center High School, son, Utah State Senate; Representative The President of the United States decides Past Pres. Carolina Council for the Social LaVar Christensen, Utah House of Rep- to go to war against a nation led by a brutal Studies. resentatives; Ms. Janet Canon, Vice Presi- dictator supported by one party rule. That North Dakota: Mr. Phil Harmeson, Co- dent, State Board of Education. dictator has made war on his neighbors. The State Facilitator; Senator Ray Holmberg, Vermont: Vee Gordon State Facilitator, President decides this is a threat to the Co-State Facilitator; Representative Dennis Senator Matt Dunne, Vermont State Senate; United States. In his campaign for President Johnson, North Dakota House of Representa- Representative Malcolm Severance, Vermont he gives no indication of wanting to go to tives; Honorable Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney House; Mr. Patrick Burke, Principal South war. In fact, he decries the over-extension of General, State of North Dakota; Honorable Burlington High School. American military might and says other na- Mary Maring, Justice North Dakota Su- Virginia: Mr. Andrew Washburn, State tions must do more. However, unbenounced preme Court. Facilitator, Delegate James Dillard, Vir- to the American public, the President’s own Ohio: Mr. Jared Reitz, State Facilitator; ginia House of Delegates; Ms. Susan Geno- Pentagon advisors have already cooked up a Representative Dixie Allen, Ohio House of vese, Vice President, Virginia Board of Edu- plan to go to war. All they are looking for is Representatives; Dr. Donald Stenta, Asso- cation; Dr. Patricia Wright, Assistant State an excuse. ciate Director, the John Glenn Institute; Superintendent of Education. An element of the U.S. military is under Mrs. Patricia Allen Day, Roosevelt Center, Washington: Mrs. Kathy Hand, State attack. The President, his Secretary of De- Dayton Public Schools; Ms. Linda Petz, Facilitator, Dr. Terry Bergeson, State Su- fense and his advisors sell the idea to Con- Stark Educational Service Center; Mr. perintendent of Public Instruction; Senator gress and the American people that it is time Frank Underwood, Assistant Director, Ohio Steve Johnson, Washington State Senate; to go to war. Based on faulty intelligence, Community Service Council. Representative Dave Quall, Washington cherry-picked information is fed to Congress Oklahoma: Mr. Michael Reggio, State House of Representatives, Representative and the American people. The President goes Facilitator; Representative Bill Nations, David Upthegrove, Washington House of Rep- on national television to explain the case for Oklahoma House; Ms. Lisa Pryor, Learn & resentatives; Mr. Steve Mullin, Vice Presi- war, using as part of the rationale for the Serve Coordinator State Dept. of Education; dent, Washington State Roundtable. war an incident that never happened. The Ms. Gina Wekke, Sr. Coordinator, Oklahoma West Virginia: Mrs. Priscilla Haden, State Congress buys the bait hook, line and sinker Regents for Higher Education; Ms. Denise Facilitator, Member, State Board of Edu- and passes a resolution giving the President Rhodes, Oklahoma Council for the Social cation; Delegate Ray Canterbury, West Vir- the authority to use ‘‘all necessary means’’ Studies; Ms. Lyndal Caddell, Noble Middle ginia House of Delegates; Dr. David Stewart, to prosecute the war. School. State Superintendent, West Virginia Depart- The war is started with an air and ground Oregon: Ms. Barbara Rost, State ment of Education; Mr. William Raglin, attack. Initially there is optimism. The Facilitator; Senator Ryan Deckert, Oregon President, West Virginia School Boards As- President says we are winning. The cocky, State Senate; Representative Pat Farr, Or- sociation; Ms. Sharon Flack, Social Studies self-assured Secretary of Defense says we are egon House of Representatives; Mr. James Supervisor, State Department of Education. winning. As a matter of fact, the Secretary Wisconsin: Ms. Dee Runaas, State Sager, Educational Policy Advisor, Office of of Defense promises the troops will be home Facilitator; Honorable Elizabeth A. the Governor; Mr. Pat Burk, Associate Su- soon. Burmaster, Superintendent of Public In- perintendent Federal Programs, Department However, the truth on the ground that the struction; Senator Robert Jauch, Wisconsin of Education. soldiers face in the war is different than the Pennsylvania: Ms. Frances J. Warren, State Senate; Representative Luther S. political policy that sent them there. They State Facilitator; Representative Jess Olsen, Wisconsin House of Representatives; face increased opposition from a determined Stairs, Pennsylvania House of Representa- Mr. Richard Grobschmidt, Assistant State enemy. They are surprised by terrorist at- tives; Mr. Albert Cunningham, Super- Superintendent of Education; Ms. Kori tacks, suicide bombers, village assassina- intendent, Montoursville Area School Dis- Oberle, Wisconsin Educational Communica- tions, increasing casualties and growing trict; Mr. James Wetzler, Social Studies Co- tions Board. ordinator, Pennsylvania Department of Edu- Wyoming: Mr. Matt Strannigan, State anti-American sentiment. They find them- cation. Facilitator; Senator Mike Massie, Wyoming selves bogged down in a guerrilla land war, Rhode Island: Mr. Michael Trofi, State State Senate; Representative Rosie Berger, unable to move forward and unable to dis- Facilitator; Honorable Matt Brown, Sec- Wyoming House of Representatives; Ms. engage because there are no allies in the war retary of State of Rhode Island; Senator Sheri Tavegie, State Department of Edu- to turn the war over to. There is no plan B. Hanna Gallo, Rhode Island State Senate; cation. There is no exit strategy. Military morale declines. The President’s popularity sinks Representative Susan Story, Rhode Island f House of Representatives; Ms. Maria and the American people are increasingly Escudero, Office of the Secretary of State; U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ frustrated by the cost of blood and treasure Mr. James Parisi, Field Representative, RI poured into a never-ending war. Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I would Sound familiar? It does to me! Federation of Teachers & Health Profes- like to share with my colleagues the sionals. The President was Lyndon Johnson. South Carolina: Mr. Paul Horne, State recent remarks of our former colleague Got Ya! Facilitator, Invited; Senator Warren Giese, Senator Max Cleland concerning U.S. The cocky, self-assured Secretary of De- South Carolina State Senate; Representative policy in Iraq. fense was Robert McNamara. Robert Walker, South Carolina House; Dr. This is a passionate, powerful speech Got ya again! Harriett L. Rucker, State School Board; Mr. by a true American hero whose tremen- The Congressional resolution was the Gulf James Bryan, Education Associate, Depart- dous service to, and personal sacrifice of Tonkin resolution. ment of Education. for, this country should make of all of You are catching on! South Dakota: Dr. Jack Lyons, State The war was the war that me, John Kerry, Facilitator; Senator Drue Vitter Lange, us mindful of his cautions and warn- Chuck Hagel, John McCain and three and-a- South Dakota House of Representatives; Ms. ings. I ask unanimous consent that half million other Americans of our genera- Glenna Fouberg, President South Dakota former Senator Cleland’s speech by tion were caught up in. It was the scene of School Board. printed in the RECORD. America’s longest war. It was also the locale

VerDate jul 14 2003 03:58 Sep 17, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A16SE6.096 S16PT1 S11562 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 16, 2003 of the most frustrating outcome of any war continue to increase. In addition to the depended upon the willingness of men this nation has ever fought. human cost, the funding of the war costs a like Justin Garvey to put themselves Unfortunately, the people who drove the billion dollars a week, adding to the addi- in harm’s way for the sake of country engine to get into the war in Iraq never tional burden of an already depressed econ- and countrymen. served in Vietnam. omy. Indeed, this Nation has survived only Not the President. The President has declared ‘‘major combat Not the Vice-President. over’’ and sent a message to every terrorist, because of such men and such women. Not the Secretary of Defense. ‘‘Bring them on.’’ As a result, he has lost When Justin Garvey last crossed Not the Deputy Secretary of Defense. more people in his war than his father did in Proctor’s historic Marble Arch Bridge, Too bad. They could have learned some les- his and there is no end in site. he was already a hero to his family and sons. Military commanders are left with ex- friends in this community. Today, all First, they could have learned not to un- tended tours of duty for servicemen and of Vermont and all of America recog- derestimate the enemy. The enemy always women, told long ago they were going home, nize Justin Garvey as an American has one option you cannot control. He al- and keeping American forces on the ground ways has the option to die. This is especially hero. where they have become sitting ducks in a Indeed, the world is in his debt. true if you are dealing with true believers shooting gallery for every terrorist group in and guerrillas fighting for their version of It is fitting and proper that we the Middle East. should dedicate a memorial to SGT reality—whether political or religious. They Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Sorry are what Tom Friedman of the New York you didn’t go when you had the chance. Justin Garvey, Proctor native, Amer- Times calls the ‘‘non-deterables.’’ If those ican hero. non-deterables are already home in their f May God Bless Justin and his family. country, they will be able to wait you out HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES f until you go home. Second, if the enemy adopts a ‘hit and run’ Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, on IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE VIC- strategy designed to inflict maximum cas- Friday, September 19, 2003, Vermonters TIMS OF THE KATYN FOREST ualties on you, you may win every battle but will gather in Proctor, VT, for a happy, MASSACRE the battles you fight (as Walter Lippman yet solemn occasion. They will assem- Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, I rise once said about the Vietnam War,) can’t win ble on that day to reopen Proctor’s today to honor the memory of the vic- the war. Marble Arch Bridge and to dedicate a Third, if you adopt a strategy of not just tims of the Katyn Forest Massacre in memorial to SGT Justin Garvey, preemptive strike but also preemptive war 1940. Katyn Forest is a quiet wooded United States Army, 101st Airborne Di- you own the aftermath. You better plan for area near the Gneizdovo village, a vision. it. You better have an exit strategy because short distance from Smolensk in Rus- The joy will be in the celebration of you cannot stay there indefinitely unless sia. It was at this site, on Soviet leader you make it the 51st state. If you do stay an the new bridge, a centerpiece of Proc- Joseph Stalin’s orders, that the Soviet extended period of time, you then become an tor’s infrastructure. It is the town’s occupier, not a liberator. That feeds the NKVD shot and buried more than 4,000 only bridge to span Vermont’s longest Polish service personnel that had been enemy against you. river, the Otter Creek. Originally con- Fourth, if you adopt the strategy of pre- taken prisoner when the Soviet Union structed in 1915, the new bridge will re- emptive war, your intelligence must be not invaded Poland in September 1939. just ‘‘darn good,’’ as the President has said, establish an historic gateway between Most of these victims were Polish army it must be ‘‘bullet proof,’’ as Secretary the east and west of Justin’s home reservists—lawyers, doctors, scientists Rumsfeld claimed the administration had community. and businessmen, Poland’s elite and in- against Saddam Hussein. Anything short of Proctor’s Marble Arch Bridge, telligentsia—who were called up to ac- that saps credibility. adorned with Highland Marble quarried Fifth, if you want to know what is really tive service following the Nazi invasion from beneath Vermont’s grand moun- of Poland. going on in the war, ask the troops on the tains, is an elegant example of artistry, ground, not the policy makers in Wash- On September 17, 1939, under the ington. The ‘‘ground truth,’’ as the soldiers craftsmanship and heritage, values terms of a secret Moscow-Berlin trea- call it, is always more accurate than the that we Vermonters cherish and re- ty, forces of the Soviet Union invaded truth expounded through the mouths of spect. Poland through its eastern border. Pol- those who plan the war and have a political, SGT Justin Garvey, Proctor High ish troops, overwhelmed by the Ger- personal and emotional investment in their School Class of 1998, exemplified these man invasion on its western border, policy. They will bend any fact, even intel- values as well. Justin was, by all ac- surrendered to the Red Army on the ligence, to their own ends. If the ground counts, an outstanding young man. He pretense they would be protected. More truth and the policy truth begin to diverge, was known as a strong competitor, a ‘‘Shock and Awe’’ will turn into what one of- than 15,000 Polish soldiers and civilians ficer in Iraq has described as, ‘‘Shock and motivated student, and an avid out- were sent to prison camps at Kozielsk, Awe Sl!’’ doorsman. His friends knew him as Starobielska and Ostashkov in the So- Sixth, in a democracy instead of truth being good hearted and good humored. viet Union. being the first casualty in war, it should be Justin was a loyal brother, a dedicated In an effort to eliminate potential the first cause of war. It is the only way the son and a loving husband. threats to Soviet control of Poland and Congress and the American people can cope Justin Garvey loved and is loved by what Stalin described as counter-revo- with getting through it. As credibility is his family and community. lutionary espionage and resistance or- strained, support for the war and support for He crossed the Marble Arch Bridge the troops goes downhill. Continued loss of ganizations, Soviet troops, carried out credibility drains troop morale, the media innumerable times. When he last what many have called one of the most becomes more suspicious, the public becomes crossed this bridge, he was on a jour- heinous war crimes in history. Pris- more incredulous and the Congress is re- ney that would take him to serve in oners in all three Soviet Camps were duced to hearings and investigations. the United States Army 101st Airborne executed and buried in mass graves. Instead of learning the lessons of Vietnam, Division, one of America’s most elite One of these graves was discovered in where all of the above happened, the Presi- defense forces. Katyn Forest, where between four and dent, the Vice-President, the Secretary of Not every soldier has the ‘‘stuff’’ to five thousand Polish bodies were found. Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense make the 101st Airborne. But it was no have gotten this country into a disaster in There were no trials; there was no jus- the desert. They attacked a country that had surprise to those who knew him that tice for these innocent victims. not attacked us. They did so on intelligence Justin Garvey studied and trained and Although the Soviet Government that was faulty, misrepresented and highly worked to become a top-notch soldier. originally denied their role in this un- questionable. A key piece of that intel- A fellow soldier wrote that ‘‘He was a speakable atrocity, on February 19, ligence was an out-right lie which the White man who had no enemies . . . he is ev- 1989 Soviet scholars released docu- House put into the President’s State of the erything I want to be as a man. Every- ments that revealed that Stalin had in- Union speech. These officials have over-ex- one who ever met Justin was better for deed ordered the mass execution. The tended the American military, including the it. It was an honor to have served with following year Soviet President Mi- Guard and the Reserve and expanded the United States Army to the breaking point. A him up to the end, that night. He khail Gorbachev apologized to the Pol- quarter of a million troops are committed to taught me what a true hero is.’’ ish people for the killings. While this the Iraq war theater, most bogged down in From before its inception and admission of guilt provided some clo- Baghdad. Morale is declining and casualties throughout its history, America has sure, it certainly does not erase the

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