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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SeachRE who wrote (141180)	10/13/2008 4:20:30 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

That doesn't make any sense but then you think Iraq under Saddam was Superb. So, I'll just consider the source... pregnant women and elderly men were killed. Some were tortured in front of their children. Saddam personally involved in the torture of leftists in the separate detention centres for fellaheen [peasants] and the Muthaqafeen or educated classes.' 7,000 Iraqi communists were executed by orders of the Ba'athist regime 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. 1.7m died on both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, started by Saddam. 100,000 Kurds were slaughtered in the so-called 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. 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". 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. 3,000 prisoners were machine-gunned to death at Mahjar prison in central Baghdad. 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. Message 25062205