[copycat]

: I think that's why. Because people don't have a sense of who Saddam is. They don't know who Michel Aflaq is - the guy who really is the guru for Saddam. No major publications have done reports on what Saddam thinks in the past year, I've looked. And the administration has to break through that. So far they have not.

This is very true, and FReepers could help here. Why aren't the speeches of Saddam being publicized? We could do that. I don't hear very many people making the case that Saddam tortures his political enemies...I have read the power drill is his favorite.

If we want to publish the atrocities of the Saddam Regime, we could sarts right here

"I just want somebody to say to those people and I wanted to go down there and say here's a regime that has professional rape teams in their military where they rape women and send the videotapes to the fathers. Here's a regime that imprisons mothers and babies in the next cell and forces them to watch their babies starve to death. "

[Jerez2]

I don't think it's worthwhile to try to educate the US as to what Saddam has said. Go with something visceral -- as Brooks points out, the rape commandos, the torture videos sent to keep the fathers of the child-victims quiet, the dead Kurd mothers trying to protect their babies. Emotion works with Americans. That's what the Left knows that the Right better learn how to use -- and there is a lot of it to use in this instance.