Er, Some Salient Facts The Peace Movement Has Ignored About Iraq...

The Iconoclast ^ | November 30, 2002 | Murray Soupcoff (The Iconoclast)

[clintonbaiter]

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Er, Some Salient Facts The Peace Movement Has Ignored About Iraq...



November 30, 2002: Sorry to spoil your holiday weekend. But today's recommended reading contains some grisly details about Saddam's less salutary behavior -- an important reminder of why replacing this dictatorial psychopath would be, to borrow a phrase from inside-trader extraordinaire Martha Stewart, a good thing. These are some facts America's most prominent anti-war activists would rather not acknowledge, let alone condemn.

With these thoughts in mind, we bring your attention to an opinion piece by John Perazzo on the FrontPageMagazine.com site entitled IRAQI HORRORS THE "PEACE MOVEMENT" IGNORES. Mr. Perazzo lets it all hang out with regard to what the peace movement might call Saddam's "culturally-differentiated" responses to opposition to his one-man rule. For example, here's how Perazzo describes the problem:

They are the darkest, loneliest, most hopeless places on earth -- hellholes that, during the past two decades, have swallowed up the lives of more than 200,000 souls. Wails of human misery still echo in their dank corridors, the unheard cries of men, women, and children destined to die in grief and anonymity -- their whereabouts unknown to their loved ones who, in many cases, have not heard from them in years.

These are the secret prisons of Iraq, of which there are roughly six dozen according to Amnesty International estimates. Amnesty spokesman Neil Durkin states that tens of thousands of people -- many of them academic and social figures deemed unfriendly to Saddam -- remain held indefinitely in these jails, without charge or trial. Anyone suspected of disloyalty to the regime, even on the flimsiest of evidence, is likely to live out the last months or years of his life in such a place....

Once prisoners are incarcerated for disloyalty to the regime, their suffering is so great it can scarcely be described. Many are placed in solitary confinement on starvation diets. Confessions are forced from them by the most gruesome methods imaginable: They are struck with brass knuckles and wooden bludgeons; they receive electric shocks to their genitalia; scorching metal rods are forced into their body orifices; their toes are crushed and their toenails pulled out; they have their limbs literally burned off; they are slowly lowered into large vats of acid until they confess or die. Many are poisoned with thallium, which causes its victims enormous agony before they die. When these prisons periodically get overcrowded, they are "cleaned out" by means of summary executions.

Frequently, confessions are extracted by torturing not only the prisoner, but his family members as well.....

Something to think about the next time you see such strident and overly-righteous anti-war Bush critics as Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand or Martin Sheen mouthing off before the cameras. And it's worth asking, what have any of these sanctimonious Hollywood big mouths ever said or done about alleviating the suffering of any one of Saddam's many victims?...............

[clintonbaiter]

Forget the U.N. Let's roll.

[yoe]

If you have them please post Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand or Martin Sheens web pages or any of the anti-war or peace movements so all can send this article to them. Thanks.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

And this is just one of the treats he has for his loyal subjects. Don't forget he executed two of his son-in-laws.
They didn't agree with him.

In the last week I have heard and read that his childhood was so terrible and he such an exceptional child who studies to be a cleric. Well, both Stalin and Hitler studied to be priests! There are plently of men who have had bad childhoods who don't become mass murderers and diabolical dictators. The collective liberal "I feel your pain, AWWWWWWWWW" that rises from such stories is sickening.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Come to think of it, ALBORE flunked out of Seminary, he too was studying to be a priest or minister. Scarey!

[Diogenesis]

Conveniently ignored by the insane Iraqi/$$addamophiles:

IRAQI CHLD ABUSE ---TODAY

In Nahawan, Iraq, south of Baghdad, at the brick factory, these girls live inside the brick factory
where they are forced to work in intolerable conditions.

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IRAQI CHLD ABUSE ---1988

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja [March 1988].

[Straight Vermonter]

While many in the peace movement cry that we should forego Iraq and remain focused on the war on terror, I think Iraq is a key move in Bush's effort to end terror. Even while the pundits were saying we must learn to live together with the Soviets Reagan had a long range vision of how to end the "evil empire". Now the pundits are saying we must adjust our lives to expect terror into the foreseeable future. Bush ignores this and sees the toppling of Saddam as the second step, after Afghanistan, in ending terror.

A free Afghanistan, a free Iraq and soon to follow (hopefully) a free Iran will create a center of gravity for democracy in the region.

Those Muslims who now see the Wahabbists as the only alternative to the tyranny of their current rulers will have the example of other Muslim democracies to look to. While some are true believers and want a world governed by 7th century Sharia law, most will see a modern democracy as the true hope to lift their families from despair.

If this is indeed Bush's vision and he has the wherewithal to pull it off he will assume a position in our history similar to that which Reagan currently enjoys.

[pfflier]

What peace movement?? Didn't anyone else notice that as soon as the election results were in the demonstrations stopped or at least the publicity did.

I contend that they were not "spontaneous" but were sponsored by the Demoncrats as a tool to undermine the 65+% of support for the President.

That show is over so now we wait for the "Pelosi" effect to cut in. Expect more demonstrations after the next congress is sworn in.

The Demoncrats, are embracing treasonous behavior and everyone should know about it. Their hero FDR locked up the entire West Coast Japanese population for less than this.

[Cobra64]

Maybe someone could email this article to the libs like Sarandon, BS and Sheen.

[Cobra64]

And this is just one of the treats he has for his loyal subjects. Don't forget he executed two of his son-in-laws. They didn't agree with him.

If I didn't know better, this rings like Stainman Clinton.