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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (2468)5/17/2004 12:37:35 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
REAL America

SEVEN Iraqis held in Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib jail have NO complaint about their treatment by America.

They were prisoners when Saddam Hussein was in power — and had their right hands hacked off on his direct orders when they faced trumped-up currency charges.

In a scene from a medieval torture chamber, hooded “doctors” roughly cut through the conscious men’s wrists, then waved the severed hands in their victims’ faces.

The men’s agony would have been forgotten . . . but for American film producer Don North, who stumbled on film of the savage “surgery”.

Amazingly, he tracked down all seven and arranged for them to be taken to America to be fitted with the latest bionic hands.

Generous help was given by U.S. officials, an airline, a top hospital, and doctors and nurses.

Ordinary American families gave the men room in their homes.

No one asked for payment. No one asked for thanks.

Their actions surely illustrate the REAL feelings of the American people — their compassion and their out- standing generosity.

The story of the seven is worth remembering when abuse handed out by a few U.S. guards in Abu Ghraib is used to attack America.

One of Saddam’s victims, Baasim Al Fadhly, summed it up.

He said: “I have already learned that the most important thing in America is freedom. Freedom is worth any sacrifice.”

thesun.co.uk
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