A Culture on Our Conscience: In 1991 America betrayed Iraq's Marsh Arabs. Now they're free at last

Opinion Journal ^ | 07/21/03 | PAUL A. GIGOT

[Pokey78]

AL TURABAH, Iraq--To reach the ninth level of Saddam's Inferno, you take a plane from Baghdad south to Basra, then hop an open-air 40-minute helicopter ride in 118-degree heat to what was once the world's closest approximation to the Garden of Eden.

[browardchad]

Glad to see that at least one reporter is eschewing the safety of a Baghdad hotel bar to report on what is actually happening in the rest of Iraq.

[Humidston]

Amen to that! And what an interesting read.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

The story of the Marsh Arabs is a relatively unknown human and environmental crime.

Thanks to Paul Gigot for writing this story.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Americans can take pride in what is happening in Iraq, regardless of sterile Washington debates about intelligence, or lack thereof.

The Democrats have a very clear position on intelligence.
They are against it.

[an amused spectator]

Gigot needed to expand on this point:

"By now everyone except al Jazeera [the Left wing of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat media machine (CBSABCNBCCNN)] concedes that Saddam was a demented tyrant.

[an amused spectator]

"We believe it to be genocide," [Baroness Nicholson] says.

So? There are more important questions to be answered, because

Bush Lied

and there should be

Reparations For Saddam

on the path to

The Impeachment of Bush

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Yep. Just about time to pick up a few more boxes of lead & brass "voting pellets", so I can vote "early and often" for my favorite Democrats. ;-)