[knighthawk]

She said: "Three women, one of whom’s niece was killed told me what happened. In one street alone they said three children could at one point be seen hanging from the lamp posts and around the corner one child lay burnt on the road. Those parents and children who resisted were badly beaten.

Middle East list

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[BRL]

They are reporting that this is probably leftover bodies from the Iraq-Iran war.

[LS]

FOX was reporting this morning that the forensic tests appeared to place the bodies as soldiers in the Iran/Iraq War, and that about 10% were Iranians. Doesn't seem to be a mass-murder site.

[LS]

FOX was reporting this morning that the forensic tests appeared to place the bodies as soldiers in the Iran/Iraq War, and that about 10% were Iranians. Doesn't seem to be a mass-murder site.

[Robert DeLong]

The mass graves are still to be discovered. Somewhere between 100,000 to 300,000 were slaughtered putting down the 91 rebellion.

[knighthawk]

Evil must be excised

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/sectionindex2/0,5935,dtmeditorial^TEXT^dailytelegraph,00.html

THE children tortured in front of their parents and left hanging from street lights in Basra at the weekend are proof of just how evil Saddam Hussein's regime has become.
These innocent children are being punished for the "crimes" of their parents who were deemed not to support the Iraqi president.

They are the latest victims of a regime so systematically horrible that it kept records of people who had their ears amputated after they complained about their child's education or the lack of fresh fruit.

The bones of more than 200 Iraqis, all shot in the head, discovered by British troops in a military warehouse outside Basra on the weekend are further evidence of this regime's illegitimacy.

A Iraqi man who accepted water as humanitarian relief from Coalition forces on the weekend was followed by Iraqi officials and shot in the stomach.

Comfortable in our well managed democracy Australian families will be sick with disbelief and abhorrence at these stories.

The war in Iraq has produced many horrors but it will ensure that Iraqi families will never again have to face the systematic evil that they endure now.

[Paleo Conservative]

[harpo11]

Absolute terrifying evil and this hideous monstrous barbaric blight is being crusehed and destroyed by good, bold, decent men and women who are willingly picking up the gauntlet and fighting bravely and courageously for Freedom!

I'm am so proud of our Armed Forces and Coalition Forces and the leaders who are standing tall in the defense of Liberty.

[VOA]

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[VOA]

In one street alone they said three children could at one point be seen hanging from the lamp posts

IIRC, the first I heard of Saddam's brutality was listening to BBC's
"World Service" on NPR in a college town in the late 1980s.

Amazing that lots of "liberal" "for the children" of the Western world aren't
giving a standing ovation to the impending fall/replacement of Saddam's
brutal regime with something more civlized.

But...these folks are just the progeny of the folks who think Stalin is unfairly criticized
in the Western media for that little famine in the Ukraine, show trials, and purges.
At least these useful idiots are consistent.
In their support of evil.

[Aquinasfan]

Some of the children were hung from street lights on the outskirts of Basra while their parents were forced to watch, it was claimed.

This reminds me of the virtuous widow and her sons in the story from 2 Maccabees. God help the parents.