[A_perfect_lady]

The international press would have heard of car bombs leveling marketplaces and would have seen tanks and the Republican Guards in the streets of Baghdad and other cities. If the press wouldn't have reported what's happening, travelers and the Iranians would have.

Are you sure? CNN, remember, now admits to submitting to Hussein's censorship in order to maintain access. Did we get reports that would suggest the 400 mass graves we have found? I don't remember seeing anything from the BBC in the 1990s about Hussein wiping out hundreds of people every so often.

[melancholy]

Did we get reports that would suggest the 400 mass graves we have found?

These were secret police executions out in the desert, tortures in prisons, etc.

I'm talking about sectarian wars, blowing up businesses and civilians every day and the lawlessness that we see and hear every hour.

Yes CNN played nice with Saddam but I don't think that the viciousness we see now wouldn't have leaked to the Internet through the Iranians and Turks.

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[melancholy]

Repost:

Did we get reports that would suggest the 400 mass graves we have found?

These were secret police executions out in the desert, tortures in prisons, etc.

I'm talking about sectarian wars, blowing up businesses and civilians every day and the lawlessness that we see and hear every hour.

Yes CNN played nice with Saddam but I don't think that the viciousness we see now wouldn't have leaked to the Internet through the Iranians and Turks.

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