The Saddam Files

Newsweek Magazine ^ | April 28,2003 | Melinda Liu,Rod Nordland,Evan Thomas

[American Jingo]

The Saddam Files

In the aftermath of Saddam's overthrow it can now be revealed for the first time detailed information as to the horrifically sadistic gruesome rule of the Ba'athist Regime. So cruel and sadistic was their behavior it would make the Marque De Sade recoil in ghoulish horror and revulsion. So vile and villainous was the extent in which they terrorized the local population that it makes "Mos Eisley" seem like a galactic backwater Disneyland by comparison.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Every Anti-War cretin should be forced to walk through a gauntlet of Saddam De Sade's torture victims. Being dogmatic Leftists, they wouldn't learn anything from it, but it would be sweet justice.

[ellery]

bttt

[k2blader]

The leftist "human rights" crowd still seems strangely silent on the atrocities committed by Saddam's regime.

[expatpat]

It's simply denial -- they are very good at it.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"it can now be revealed for the first time" because CNN is no longer the only network with a Baghdad bureau.

[Tamzee]

Terrible to read, but good to see it in Newsweek...

Thanks!

[cake_crumb]

I wish this article had come from somewhere other than Newsweek.

Earlier this month, this same Newsweek gave VP Dick Cheny a down arrow and said his comment that we would 'be greeted as liberators' was 'an arrogent blunder for the ages'.

When a publication seems so schizophrenic, it's hard to give them any credibility, even when they deserve it. That's the other half of the reason I don't read the Washington Post or New York Times

[knuthom]

it can now be revealed for the first time

Give me a break. The full extent of the evil is breathtaking, but it is not a surprise. The anti-war crowd cannot claim that they couldn't have known. There was information about this available before the war. They may not have known the full scope of Saddam's evil, there were reports of his torture leaking out. They just didn't want to believe them.

Remember Ramsey Clark and this drivel:

The antiwar leader said that other accounts from Iraqi defectors who have described Saddam's brutality, as well as reports of terrorist training operations inside Iraq, were probably false.

"I've worked with problems of defection and informers for years and years and they're not generally reliable," Clark told WLIE. "You have to be careful about who you're talking to. I also recognize propaganda. And I hear more garbage and propaganda coming out about how evil the Iraqi people are."

He then chastised radio host Siegel for spreading accounts of Saddam's brutality, complaining, "I think you're just fantasizing with propaganda. It shows your own hatred and narrow-mindedness."