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...same time, Saddam showed that he was as ready as ever to clamp down hard on his restive populace. He fired his Interior Minister and replaced him with a cousin, Ali Hassan Majid, who not only served as the governor of occupied Kuwait during Iraq's rape of the country but also allegedly supervised the gassing of rebellious Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000. Baghdad also expelled all foreign journalists from the country, perhaps to eliminate witnesses to a coming bloodbath. Opposition leaders were terrified that Saddam would use chemical weapons against his own people once again...
...hair by an Iraqi soldier -- he was still holding his soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front of the other kids." Some of Mike's friends had to cut down seven young Kuwaiti girls who had been hanged in a schoolyard after having been raped. There are several hundred women awaiting abortions, says a doctor at Mubarak al-Kabir Hospital. All were victims of gang rape...
...soldiers were just following Saddam's orders, and I am sure they were. But living in a place like Iraq, with a regime like Saddam's, makes little Saddams of everyone, or brings out the Saddam in all of us. When you live in a society without principles, the rape of Kuwait is what you get. If there is a silver lining to all this, it is that we may now understand the value of having principles as we try to build a new, more democratic and merit-driven country. If people can understand that, Saddam will have done...
...same is true about rape: Physical violence greatly increases the pain, but the violence itself is not what makes it a violation. Physical violence is one means to an end, and the end is a violation that does not have to be achieved through physical force...
...calling it rape is what it takes for men to view sexual exploitation of women as a violation, then it should be called rape. I understand that it is traumatic and painful for a person to accept that an action she or he committed was a serious violation of another person. I assure you that it is every bit as traumatic and painful to accept having been violated...