[Nachum]

“Fourteen lost years of my life. Nothing but bread for food — darkness, filth, beatings, torture, killings, bitterness and humiliation. I wish they could experience it for just 24 hours.”

[yonif]

The Iraqi people will soon be liberated.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Soon they will be free. I hope we get plenty of pictures to shove up the liberals @ss.

[Hotdog]

Hang on... Iraq's going to get liberated...then when the truth comes out...the French...Germans...Russians...will be telling us how they want there crow cooked!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Saddam has deluded himself with his reign of terror for so lng that he believes his own propaganda that is is loved by all Iraqis when the truth is that millions of Iraqis will actively support and help U.S. troops while ratting out Saddam's Republican Guard.

[A_perfect_lady]

Fourteen lost years of my life. Nothing but bread for food ? darkness, filth, beatings, torture, killings, bitterness and humiliation. I wish they could experience it for just 24 hours.

What a gentle, forgiving man. Cause I want to sentence them to at least a month and I haven't suffered at all. Just reading about it makes my kettle whistle.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

“I am surprised to hear of all the anti-war demonstrations in the West,” he said. “I wish that the demonstrators could spend just 24 hours in the place I have come from and see the reality of Iraq.

I agree, completely.

[ez]

Iraqi exiles write to the Prime Minister Blair

During his monthly press conference this morning the Prime Minister noted that increasing numbers of Iraqi exiles are now writing direct to the Prime Minister's Office with their own experiences of life in Saddam's Iraq.

The letters and e-mails the Prime Minister's Office has received include the following.

Dr Adil Awadh was a doctor who treated Iraqi soldiers whose ears were deliberately cut off as punishment. "I personally treated many Iraqi soldiers from ear wounds infections after they were subjected to Ear Cutting operations in Al Amarah military hospital".

Dr Awadh also saw, in 1991, military choppers that "dropped papers that informed the Iraqis who live in Al-Hilla that they were about to strike with chemical weapons".

Dr Sabah Ali says four of the 52 students he graduated with have been hanged. "We were 52 graduates who completed our degree in medicine. Six years later my colleagues Jawad, Adel, Foad and Abdul Nabi have been hanged...sixteen orphans in my family all because of Saddam".

He goes on to say that Sadam Hussein is "a breed of his own, he is alone".

Bakhtiar Amin, head of the Paris-based International Association for Justice, talks of "the mass graves of all disappeared Iraqis, Saddam's torture chambers and hidden WMD".

He goes on to note that "Iraqis have never lived in peace during Saddam's rule. They will never live in peace as long as he remains in power. The region and the world will never be in peace as long as he will be around."

Dr Munther Alfadhal writes that "we Iraqis have suffered enormously under Saddam".

He goes on to note that "Saddam Hussein has been a disaster, not only for Iraq, but also for the whole region". Another correspondent says Saddam's rule is a glaring shame on the face of humanity.

Nadia Allawi describes Saddam's regime as "brutal and cruel". She notes that "it is enough to look the wrong way for it to be deemed as subversive behaviour, an act punishable by death or worse."

A group of Iraqi exiles in the UK have written collectively to stress that Saddam "has managed to virtually destroy the very fabric of our society".

They go on to note the "execution of thousands of decent, honourable citizens, politicians, scientists and army officers. The groundless jailing and torture of our people which includes branding and the cutting out of tongues in public places and the decapitation of women is an affront to civilisation."

There is a letter from a North London school child, who says "My Dad, brother, my mum's brother, and my grandad were all tortured and hanged because they chose to speak against Saddam Hussein".


Another Iraqi exile wants those who took place in the marches over the weekend to understand the full nature of Saddam's violation of human rights. An Iraqi doctor asks if the marchers knew that ordinary Iraqis go hungry while Saddam feasts.

Others note that human rights do not exist in Iraq, that nobody is now free, democratic countries can only begin to imagine what it is like to live in Iraq under Saddam's rule.

Finally, Sharif Ali Bin AlHussein, Chairman of the Iraqi National Congress, stresses that "sanctions have not wrecked Iraq, but have kept Saddam from further developing his weapons of mass destruction, which he has already used on his own people".

He adds that "there can be few families in Iraq which remain untouched by the all-pervasive grasp of Saddam's security apparatus

[drq]

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[Peter Libra]

Where there is smoke there is fire. This poor man. On the brighter side there is more for the just cause. I just got in out of the Canadian cold (5 fahr)there on T/V (CNBC),was a program called After Hours, with Maria Bartiromo. I hope the guide was right. She had on Ambassador Richard Murphy, an expert on things Arabia, also Andrew Cockburn, a Saddam biographer.

Wow, after my dose of gloom and despair delivered by CNN, this was a shot of adrenalin. These two men- with the aid of old films, laid it to that (blank) Saddam. Yes, along the same lines. The infamous calling out of the "traitors" at a meeting. All executed just after they were taken out,supervised by Saddam. No trial.

The just cause has got friends on T/V. Can one believe it? Brutal executions were claimed ie: in other cases- hooks through the eyes. The power of the message, this time on our side.

Dan Rather where are you?

[Slyfox]

When all the peaceniks say that the if we go to war with Iraq we will be the agressors. I'd like to know, at what point did we retaliate for the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

[mitchbert]

What Will They Say When the Dungeons are Opened?

[NonValueAdded]

" The local branch of the UN and the Red Cross appeared unwilling or unable to help him. “They were polite but firm,” he said. “They told me I was a released prisoner so was out of their jurisdiction.” "

Whaaaat? The UN I can understand, but the Red Cross useless too?

[Intolerant in NJ]

“I am surprised to hear of all the anti-war demonstrations in the West,” he said. “I wish that the demonstrators could spend just 24 hours in the place I have come from and see the reality of Iraq..bump....