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To: GST who wrote (123239)	1/15/2004 12:18:51 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You will change your tune about Saddam's record keeping now. This was penned by one of your heros..... <font size=4> ....The administrator takes Hiwa and me on a tour of the building, where thousands of documents are stacked floor to ceiling in each office. If the Hussein regime could be credited with anything, it would be with keeping obsessively complete records of the atrocities the regime itself committed. (Pol Pot and Hitler shared this habit.) Many of the death warrants are signed by Hussein. Our tour ends in a room of moldy documents piled head-high and wall to wall, representing some of the lives claimed under this horrific regime.<font size=3> Our guide makes the point simply: "We will put all these names in a museum as a way to say thank you to all those who sacrificed their lives on the long road to reach freedom." It's a reminder that it wasn't only the Americans and coalition forces that "liberated" the country. There were tens of thousands of Iraqis who lost their lives opposing the regime as well..... ....For Iraqis, there was no pro-war or anti-war movement last spring when the United States invaded their country. That, in their view, was a predominantly Western debate. They're used to war; they're used to gunshots. What's new is this tiny seed and taste of freedom. It is a compelling experience to have been in Baghdad just one year ago, where not a single Iraqi expressed to me opinions outside Baathist party lines, and just one year later, when so many express their opinions and so many opinions compete for attention. Where the debate is similar to that in the United States is over the way in which the business of war will administer the opportunity for peace and freedom, and the reasonable expectation of Iraqi self-rule..... sfgate.com. Sean Penn

To: GST who wrote (123239)	1/15/2004 12:32:05 AM
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U.N. needs to make good on broken resolutions March 7, 2003 .....Iraq says those inventories have been destroyed. It offers no proof. <font size=4>Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix has noted that the government is meticulous in every other aspect of its record-keeping.<font size=3> It is therefore incomprehensible that they should have no record of having destroyed thousands of gallons of anthrax, botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin they had admitted having...... house.gov Files that provide building blocks for foreign minister .....<font size=4>The stack of personnel files on the desk of Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's new foreign minister, are exemplars of Ba'athist record-keeping. Meticulously compiled, they log everything an incoming boss might want to know about his staff.<font size=3>..... guardian.co.uk Tracking Saddam's Billions APRIL 3, 2003 .....Tracing this money trail isn't easy. <font size=4>U.S. officials hope that the Iraqis' penchant for thorough record-keeping will yield a trove when American and British troops occupy Baghdad.<font size=3>..... compuserve.businessweek.com Baghdad counts the deadly cost of its freedom .....While few of Baghdad's hospitals had computerised files, <font size=4>meticulous record-keeping was the norm in Saddam's Iraq, which, for decades, sustained an overblown state bureaucracy.<font size=3> Iraqi death certificates, to be filled out in quadruplicate, require detailed personal information about the deceased and the manner of death...... theage.com.au