Gory Revelations Stun Iraqi's

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 06/01/03 | Anna Badhken

[jwh_Denver]

I was surprised to read this in the traditionally very liberal San Francisco Chronicle, on the front page no less.

And this was smelling the roses compared to what I've read elsewhere about atrocities orchestrated or done by Saddam.

[Bubba_Leroy]

May I suggest, totally off the wall, that she recognized the economic advantages of normalization with China and did not want these advantages to occur under a Republican president?

I'll bet all those campaign contributions that China sent to the DNC had something to do with it too. And to think, all that the Chinese wanted in return was a few nuclear secrets.

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘general interest’ ping list.

[sweetliberty]

"On an average day we see six or seven mass graves. New ones,"

Good Lord have mercy! Amazing that WE don't even hear much of this. Seems Fox has become too obsessed with Laci to be very concerned and the others, well, they are all just doing what they've been doing all along, promoting the socialist agenda.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Thanaa al Taee, 34, an arts critic and a ceramics teacher who is now completing her fourth master's degree...struggled to remember what she has heard about the notorious site of a 1988 chemical attack on the Iraqi Kurds, which killed about 5,000 people. When she finally replies, there is a note of uncertainty in her voice...so much education, so little intelligence - much like the big-talking, do-nothing academics in this country......

[sweetliberty]

"We must never underestimate the incredible power that we human beings have to deceive ourselves."

Self-deception can function as an effective coping mechanism in the face of circumstances one feels powerless to change.

[Fiddlstix]

Tom Daschle: "I'm deeply saddened [that this has been discovered]."

ROFL
Well Said!

[SkyPilot]

It sounds like German citizens who told Patton's Army they had absolutely no idea, NO IDEA! that there were death camps!

[Doctor Raoul]

In a sign of the changing times, street vendors sell for $3 apiece bootleg CD-ROMs featuring video recordings of Hussein's executions of his political opponents and relatives fallen from grace.

I'll by one each for that fat Dixie Chick, Sean Penn, Mike Farrell, Ed Asner, Babs Streisand, Michael Moore and one each for the cast of West Wing.

And if I thought Maureen Dowd would take her head out of Aaron Sorkin's lap for even a second, I'd buy her one too.

[ladyinred]

How horrifying!
Hope all of the freaks who think we should have left this evil regime in power feel good about this.

[Political Junkie Too]

Iraqi denial will prevent the masses from appreciating the meaning of this.

-PJ

[Peter Libra]

All is well with that good man, GWB. If that is not proof what is?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bttt

[skr]

"How horrifying!
Hope all of the freaks who think we should have left this evil regime in power feel good about this."

I suspect they'll say something like, 'Oh, he was a terrible man and we're glad he's gone, but Bush killed a lot of Iraqis, too.'

[MarMema]

Thanks for posting this. Horrifying stuff. God bless our troops and president for doing in this regime.

[cricket]

"Eventually GWB will be recognized as nothing less than heroic to have gone against much world opinion to thwart Saddam."

. . .what is critical here is that the truth be recognized; not compromised, not altered by own revisionists aka Liberals or those from around the world attempting to define 'world think' by their rewrites and 'interpretations'. . .

It is an ongoing battle, never-ending it seems, against the tyranny of lies and against those who choose to ignore real evil.

[Boot Hill]

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:   Bouckaert estimates that about 290,000 people have disappeared in Iraq throughout Hussein's rule."

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:   the Committee for Free Prisoners claims it has execution records of 8 million Iraqis ."

Let's see, according to the article Hussein's Baath Party seized power in 1968, so if we take the geometric average of those two death estimates, we get about 1.5 million total killings spread over 35 years, or about approximately 119 killings per day, or about one every 12 minutes. Even taking Bouckaert's much lower estimate, that's still one every hour, 24/7 for 35 years.

My, my, busy little buggers, weren't they?

--Boot

[lavaroise]

I don't believe a single creepy assertion there. Who can say they or they did not realize it off hand? This data comes from brains in denial, they are assumptions, not hard datas.

Maybe the knowledge was psychologicaly repressed, but it was there. GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK LIBERAL MURDERERS!

[lavaroise]

The combination of Hussein's brutal security police and his totalitarian propaganda machine sufficiently silenced any dissent from reaching ordinary people.

I don't believe a single creepy assertion there. Who can say they or they did not realize it off hand? This data comes from brains in denial, they are assumptions, not hard datas.

Maybe the knowledge was psychologicaly repressed, but it was there. GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK LIBERAL MURDERERS!

[backhoe]

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