Apparently you have not kept up with current events. There
are few media outlets that haven't mentioned the horrific
oppression of the vast majority of Iraqi's while the ruling
Ba'ath party elite lived in luxury.
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I would have thought that what was really happening in Iraq at that moment in history is that 22 million people has finally realised that two and a half decades of the most brutal and disgusting oppression was finally over. But then Al-Jazeera........
crikey.com.au
Last week, I learned there was a children's prison in Baghdad where they locked up the kids of parents deemed disloyal to the regime......
In its scale and sadism, the regime's brutality went way beyond the cruelty of your average police state. It lasted for 20 years. Saddam's rule of terror ought to have sparked international outrage years ago. But it never did. Why not?....
Naturally, it was hard for journalists to get at the truth. But there were other ways. The world is full of exiles who fled Saddam's horrors, and bear his scars. Yet no one was very interested in what they had to say. Even outfits such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which did document some of Saddam's horrors, seemed more interested in scourging the West over sanctions than exposing the regime's abuses.
globeandmail.com
US considers Hussein trial
ABC Online, Australia - 5 hours ago
... and everyone has testimony about torture, murder or oppression. ... and will be able
to use that as evidence ... claims to have stumbled across records linked Saddam ...
abc.net.au
Toward a safer 21st century
Washington Times, DC - 40 minutes ago
... What's behind the Middle East's endemic poverty? Theft by autocrats.
Iraq can showcase the fruits of economic reform. When the ...
washingtontimes.com
Experts: Looters had keys to Iraqi antiquity vaults
Star, Malaysia - 2 hours ago
... current war. The trafficking feeds off of Iraq's poverty-stricken people,
said Salma El Radi, an Iraqi archaeologist. "If you need ...
thestar.com.my
Carnegie Scholars Say Cultivating Democracy in Iraq a Huge Task
Washington File (press release) - 6 hours ago
... Chow said the Iraqi oil fields were located in the sensitive areas of the
dissident Kurds in the north and the oppressed Shia Arabs in the south. ...
usinfo.state.gov
Give Kurds freedom from Saddam's oppression
Hamilton Spectator, Canada - Apr 9, 2003
... Thirty-five years later, the Kurds are still under the Iraqi regime
led by Saddam Hussein. Saddam's regime used a variety of weapons ...
hamiltonspectator.com
UPI - Iraq officials call U.S. liberating force
He slammed Saddam Hussein's ousted regime as an "aggressive rule that oppressed its people and neighbors," stressing that "we are now in the age of freedom and democracy."
upi.com
Chalabi sets up base in Uday's palace
Washington Times, DC - 28 minutes ago
... The Shi'ites, harshly oppressed by Saddam, make up roughly 60 percent of Iraq's ... Hakim,
Mr. Alsammarae and Mr. Chalabi belong to the 65-member opposition Iraqi ...
washingtontimes.com
Impact of Iraqi defeat on Islam - WorldNetDaily.
'In the hundreds of interviews of Muslims throughout the Islamic world, one thing came across loud and clear. It was much more important to them that the Iraqis defeat the U.S.-UK infidel invaders than it was for a ruthless tyrant to be removed and the horribly oppressed Muslim brothers of Iraq liberated.'
worldnetdaily.com
Israel celebrates Passover without Iraqi threat
Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa County - 18 hours ago
... In a Jerusalem Post op-ed piece Wednesday, reporter Caroline B. Glick wrote of
the hope that Iraqis and others oppressed by their leaders may become the ...
bayarea.com
Which Is Worse , Looting or Saddam ’ s Abuses ?
ChronWatch.com - 1 hour ago
... weren't clear enough, some of these people are calling for the reinstatement of Saddam's ... to
look at the looting in the context of almost 30 years of oppression ...
chronwatch.com
Toward a safer 21st century
Washington Times, DC - 35 minutes ago
... Saddam's forces also lacked popular support — the Iraqi Army and
the Republican Guard were tools of tyrannical oppression. US ...
washingtontimes.com
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