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To: SeachRE who wrote (141055)	10/12/2008 9:39:23 PM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

The "liberal" media will never accurately report on conditions in Iraq.

To: SeachRE who wrote (141055)	10/12/2008 9:41:34 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 173976

Under Saddam's secular non-theocratic government 60 percent of those attending university were women; there was a real estate market, a stock market and open trading of goods and services -- this prior to Bush's want to become a "war president."

To: SeachRE who wrote (141055)	10/13/2008 12:16:01 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"Iraq under Saddam was superb..." No it wasn't 1953: Saddam released from exile The butchery began as soon as the lists reached Baghdad. No-one was spared. Even pregnant women and elderly men were killed. Some were tortured in front of their children. According to the author, Saddam who 'had rushed back to Iraq from exile in Cairo to join the victors, was personally involved in the torture of leftists in the separate detention centres for fellaheen [peasants] and the Muthaqafeen or educated classes.' The author reckons that 5,000 were killed, giving the names of 600 of them--including many doctors, lawyers, teachers and professors who formed Iraq's educated elite. The book, A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite (1997) muslimedia.com Death toll: 1978-1979 Up to 7,000 Iraqi communists were executed by orders of the Ba'athist regime. 1982 The specific atrocity for which Saddam was hanged: 148 Shias were murdered in the village of Dujail. 1984 Up to 4,000 political prisoners in Abu Ghraib jail were tortured and killed. Saddam's favoured methods of torture included cutting off genitalia, gouging out eyes and acid baths. 1980-1988 Some 1.7m died on both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, started by Saddam. 1987-1989 At least 100,000 Kurds were slaughtered in the so-called Anfal campaign. Some were gassed, others cast alive into mass graves. 1988 On March 16, in the worst single atrocity of the Anfal campaign, 5,000 Kurds were killed when Saddam ordered planes to drop a mixture of mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin on the town of Halabja. 1990-1991 About 25,000 Iraqi troops are thought to have died in the seven-month Gulf War, which began when US-led forces entered Iraq following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths have varied wildly - up to 200,000. The coalition death toll was 378 and many troops suffered from the unexplained "Gulf War syndrome". 1991 Tens of thousands were killed as Saddam attempted to put down a popular rebellion following his defeat by the US-led forces in February 1991. More than 100,000 Shias were killed; a similar number of Kurds died. About 200,000 Marsh Arabs were killed or made homeless. 1993-1998 About 3,000 prisoners were machine-gunned to death at Mahjar prison in central Baghdad. 2003-2006 Iraqi casualties since the March 2003 invasion have been estimated at 650,000 by Johns Hopkins University. America has lost 3,000 troops and Britain 127. Torture under Saddam: Excerpted from 23-page British government dossier detailing torture under Saddam. thesmokinggun.com Eye gouging Eyes gouged out and the empty eye sockets stuffed with paper. Piercing of hands with electric drill. Common method for political detainees. Amnesty International reported one victim who then had acid poured into his open wounds. Electric Shock Common torture method with shocks applied to various parts of the body. Sexual abuse Particularly women have been raped and sexually abused, including reports of broken bottles being forced into the victim’s anus. Other physical torture Extinguishing cigarettes on various parts of the body, extraction of fingernails and toenails and beatings with canes, whips, hose pipes and metal rods are common. Mock executions. Victims being told they are to be executed by firing squad and mock execution staged. Acid baths David Scheffer, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, reported that photographic evidence showed that Iraq had used acid baths during the invasion of Kuwait, Victims were hung by their wrists and gradually lowered into the acid.

To: SeachRE who wrote (141055)	10/13/2008 12:21:02 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

"Iraq under Saddam was superb ..." Nope ============== Uday's torture chamber opened 24/07/2004 22:04 - (SA Baghdad - Tools of torture that Saddam Hussein's slain son, Uday, used to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes were displayed for the media Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the Olympic Games next month. Journalists were shown medieval-style torture equipment, including an "iron maiden-like" casket with metal spikes fixed to the inside that athletes had been forced into, and chain whips with steel barbs the size of tennis balls attached to the end. "During the old regime, Uday was looking for results and he wanted winners. He didn't like second place," Talib Mutan, an Iraqi Olympics Committee official, told press. "If the athletes didn't come in first, they were punished. And he would punish the people around the athletes, their managers and coaches included," he said. Uday ran the Olympic committee while his father ruled Iraq and was killed by US forces last July along with his elder brother, Qusay. Mutan said athletes who earned Uday's wrath were tortured in various ways, through beatings, sleep deprivation and being forced to walk barefoot over hot asphalt during Iraq's searing summer. The official said there had been suggestions made to display the torture equipment in a museum, but no final decision had been made. The International Olympic Committee reinstated Iraq's national Olympic committee in February after it was suspended in early 2003, enabling Iraqi athletes to compete at the upcoming Athens Olympics. - AP