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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (20785)	7/6/2002 1:28:34 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Hi Mq: >>How many children have been tortured to death and where are their parents and relatives? I can imagine instances of that, but I doubt that it's a regular feature of Iraqi investigations of suspicious people. Neither do I believe that dead children are 'tossed' into Iraqi government freezers. Probably, as in NZ, the children are put in cold storage and parents are not allowed to have the bodies until investigators have completed their dissections and consideration of the possibility of foul play.<< You're a good guy so I'll go easy on the sarcasm. What I wrote was the literal truth. Saddam has a full-time staff of interrogators who routinely use the "torture the children" trick. You don't hear much about it because the parents also mostly wind up dead some time later. The frozen babies thing is also literally true. Saddam holds regular events where dead infants are paraded through the streets of Baghdad. The idea is that this shows how US and UN sanctions are killing Iraqi civilians. The liberal Western media usually reports this Iraqi propaganda, which vastly overstates the number of infant deaths, as fact. What is actually happening is that Saddam collects these sad little bodies from all over Iraq, holding them in freezers for months until a sufficient number have been collected. I'm down at the beach on an old, slow computer. I'll post supporting links when I get home. The New York Times reported an outline of the Iraq invasion plan on Friday. This is of course a deliberate leak, designed to test American and potential allied reaction. Also to pass the message of what is coming to Saddam. The invasion will apparently be sometime next year, unless of course Saddam drops his shorts in the meantime. I am sure that there are many Iraqi survivors of the Gulf war who have spread the word that when you try and fight the Americans in the Iraqi desert you die before you see or hear what has just killed you. This will do nothing for the morale of Iraqi forces who will surrender en masse before a shot is fired next time around. I for one can not wait to see Saddam's burned and bullet-riddled body, or better still, Saddam shackled in an orange jump suit with his mustache shaved off by a sympathetic federal employee.

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