Oh, horse hockey. We heard the same sort of crap prior to the Gulf shoot-em-up. Only that time it was the boys school in Kuwait where all the little adolescents were castrated (American Spectator, which I believed totally and which turned out to be pure fantasy). When we're being ginned up for war, take some of this stuff with a grain of salt.
That does not mean it's not true. It does not mean I am opposed to "getting" Saddam. It does mean that it has an odor of propaganda.
Have you ever seen the tapes of the Kurds who were gassed? I have. There are womena and children who just dropped dead in the street.
If you see that, the whole cutting off ears thing doesn't sound all that hard to believe. Don't you agree?