Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (559824)	4/9/2010 5:03:22 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577147

The FACT is that there are a substantial amount of WMD which the UN verified which were never destroyed nor accounted for.....even to this day. J.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (559824)	4/9/2010 5:04:22 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577147

So will you be calling him, poor Saddam the lamb of Iraq, next? It is hard to believe all these reports could be true but .... --------- 1953: Saddam released from exile he had threatened to take war everywhere in the world "wherever there is sky, land or water." He was a madman in a position to act on his madness. 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. Even in his limited capacity of the day he threatened America with terrorism. "We know that you can harm us although we do not threaten you. But we too can harm you. Everyone can cause harm according to their ability and their size. We cannot come all the way to you in the United States, but individual Arabs may reach you." (NYT International)