"CB" wrote in message
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Saying that the US brutalises Iraqis less harshly than Sadaam is hardly a
glowing recommendation.

think about it it.

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I just recently heard an interview with a young man who was the sole
survivor of a genocidal attack in the Kurdish territory. He was twelve years
old at the time. We have found the mass graves of the attack and the dead
numbered 3,000 in this one attack alone. He was the SOLE survivor. They were
rounded up into buses and were driven to an outlying area where bulldozers
sat waiting by large holes.

Imagine being twelve years old and experiencing this. They were told to get
into the holes and then Saddam's soldiers started shooting them with machine
guns. There was a lady next to him who was very pregnant. They shot her so
much that her baby actually fell out.

The boy climbed out and pleaded with the gunman closest to him. The man
threw him into the pile and shot him. He was shot 4 times in the back and
once in the leg, IIRC. He played dead and when the soldiers went over to
take a break, he crawled out and into the next grave which was empty at the
time. The bulldozer covered over all the dead bodies (and perhaps some that
were still hanging on to life) while the sun lowered into the sky. Once it
was dark, the boy limped away. He walked for two hours and was taken in by a
Bedouin family.

That boy is now 25 or so. He is afraid that he will be killed because he is
an eyewitness to Saddam's cruelty and he plans to testify against Saddam in
his trial. The people who want him dead are Saddam supporters, naturally.
How anyone would want that murderer back in power really escapes me.

There are thousands of similar stories that have been told, but our media
wants to focus on things that America does wrong, like Abu Grahib. But
comparing the two is laughable.

I am not saying that we should overlook our mistakes, but good God, let's
keep things in perspective at least.

-Trent
PP-ASEL