You don't know Saddam . . . Iraqi refugee says world hasn't seen Saddam's cruelty

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 28 March 2003 | Matthai Chakko Kuruvila

[CounterCounterCulture]

The Al-Mamori family has been tied to the television ever since the war in Iraq began, flipping between BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.

Even with access to 35 Arabic language TV channels, not to mention American cable news shows, the most vivid images Jawad Al-Mamori sees of Iraq are not on the screen. They are in his mind.

[mgc1122]

The lamestream media doesn't have the cajones or the political bent to put on such images.

[HittMann]

Keeping for future reference.

[b4its2late]

Think Iraq TV will be calling him for an interview?

[In God I trust]

Somebody needs to get a hold of this guy and tell him to stop watching those propaganda news stations. Did you catch that list? Wow, the three worst to watch. A little Fox News would do this fella some good.

[rageaholic]

Anti War Protests are not about the Irak people, or American people. It's an irrelevant feel-good thing for america hating malcontents. Its all about "me me me".

[anniegetyourgun]

Hell, not even CNN or the BBC will call him.

[over3Owithabrain]

The media worldwide knows how evil Saddam is, but they'd rather seduce the public into thinking Bush is worse. That's how evil they are, and yes, I mean evil. They choose to slant everything as America's fault to score political points in their march towards global communism.

[ibbryn]

A cashier at a Campbell gas station...With three remote controls and two satellite dishes, Al-Mamori watches the 52-inch TV for at least eight hours a day

I know I'm getting a little sidetracked from the main point of this story, but ain't America a great place to live?

[beaversmom]

There's definitely a movement going on in this world to undermine and then destroy the United States. Fortunately, it isn't the majority in this country, but it's still scary to think of the number of people who will blindly follow those itching for our desctruction.

[Kenton]

When Iraq has been liberated, all these stories will come out. When you are outraged by the left, take some comfort from the fact that very soon the leftwingers who sided with Saddam are going to be proved very wrong, very publicly. The back-pedaling will be frantic, and the ordinary people who were misled by their lies are going to feel very foolish.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[CounterCounterCulture]

Yes, I did notice that. :-)

[alloysteel]

Even if taken personally to the sites of these monuments to abuse and degradation, there are many who will not believe. There are those who still maintain that the Holocaust in Nazi Germany was a fabrication, and that few if any Jews died, except by Allied bombing.

Iraq has had its own Holocaust. And it will have its impact with the Muslim world. But only after Saddam is gone, will the full horror of those years of Iraq's torment be revealed. Stay tuned.

[RogueIsland]

When you are outraged by the left, take some comfort from the fact that very soon the leftwingers who sided with Saddam are going to be proved very wrong, very publicly.

Hopefully, they will be relegated to the same pile as those "journalists" who defended Stalin even while perfectly aware of his crimes.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

A cashier at a Campbell gas station

Yet he speaks more wisdom and truth than 99% of the "intelligentsia". This guy knows way more than the editorial board of the NY Slimes, and way more than all the talking heads of ABCNBCCBSCNN etc. Speaks volumes.

[k2blader]

Bump!

[CounterCounterCulture]

There's definitely a movement going on in this world to undermine and then destroy the United States. Fortunately, it isn't the majority in this country, but it's still scary to think of the number of people who will blindly follow those itching for our desctruction.

Yes, they'll spew rhetoric about the "haves and the have-nots" but under their utopia, only their kings will be the "haves"

[Liberal Classic]

``They don't understand what Saddam is doing to his people,'' said Al-Mamori, who also disagrees with American and European war protesters. ``Only Iraqi people know what's going on inside Iraq. You cannot take him out without war.''

From someone who knows first hand BUMP.

[WellsFargo94]

Anti War Protests are not about the Irak people, or American people. It's an irrelevant feel-good thing for america hating malcontents. Its all about "me me me".

You got that right! These folks think that the "intellectual left" that came out of the 60's-70's with revolutionary ideas on Peace and Free Love improved society. That is how history idealizes them(selves). What young folks don't realize is that the professors that espouse extreme leftist ideas were draft dodgers, and their girlfriends, who ended up becoming highly educated because they were cowards and couln't face that fact. As a result the drug use and "Free" love, we are paying dearly for as a society. But these young people just feel that they are better and more enlightened than others and deserve their opinions to be excepted by the mainstream. These Gen X'ers want to be remembered in history like the baby boomers have been.