Posted on 12/14/2005 11:12:21 PM PST by Angel
''There was a police recruiting station. Forty young men lined up to sign up to become Iraqi policemen. A vehicle-borne IED explodes -- kills or badly injures 12 of them. The next day, the 28 remaining return to the same spot to sign up to be policeman.
He is recalling a day in 1982 at a prison in Baghdad.
''We all knew what they meant by 'celebration.' All the prisoners were chained to a pipe that ran the length of the courtyard wall. One prisoner, Amer al-Tikriti, was called out. They said if he didn't tell them everything they wanted to know, they would show him torture like he had never seen. He merely told them he would show them patience like they had never seen.
''This is when they brought out his wife, who was five months pregnant. One of the guards said that if he refused to talk he would get 12 guards to rape his wife until she lost the baby. Amer said nothing. So they did. We were forced to watch. Whenever one of us cast down his eyes, they would beat us."
''Amer's wife didn't lose the baby. So the guard took a knife, cut her belly open and took the baby out with his hands. The woman and child died minutes later. Then the guard used the same knife to cut Amer's throat."
''The tyrant will soon be gone," President Bush promised the Iraqi people in March 2003. ''The day of your liberation is near." Some cynics still sneer that it was really a war for oil, or for Halliburton, but Iraqis cannot afford such delusions. They know now what liberty means and will not willingly give it up.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Another story in the mountain of evidence that the left is on the wrong side of history....again.
Most Americans have never met the evil that Saddam and his henchmen were. We can read it. We can gasp at the telling of it. We can never feel it the way an Iraqi can but we must recognize it. Thank God for America.
But noone who subscribes to the Globe read Jeff Jacoby. he is one of those crazy right wingers.
bttt
Think "Hillary".
Ping
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