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Iraq: What Will It Take? "This war has never been about WMD threats or Saddam Hussein. It is about an Administration's obsession with power and control." Steve Mawhinney Roseville...
...militia headed by former Iraqi army officers. What's the point of this? It seems that the American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice at Fallujah died for nothing. And that is what George W. Bush calls progress? This war has never been about WMD threats or Saddam Hussein. It is about an Administration's obsession with power and control, no matter how much blood is spilled or how much money is spent. Steve Mawhinney Roseville...
...troops to keep the faith, at a time when so many Americans are losing theirs. Back home, Americans "see pictures of burning humvees, they see pictures of abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and they see all the negative things that happen," he says, addressing 100 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "But the positive things that happen day after day--the only people who really know about that...
...Shoot me here,? said an Abu Ghraib prisoner pointing to the space between his eyes, ?but don?t do this to us.? To Americans this response is puzzling. Iraqis suffered many horrible, mutilating tortures under Saddam Hussein. How is torture under American forces worse...
...These tortures have appeared more often in the wars of democracies than in dictatorships, for here public monitoring was greater. Dictators like Saddam Hussein didn?t use them much. Indeed, they may have needed to leave scarred bodies in every public square as evidence of their power. That very lack of scarring in some ways is even worse. A UN psychologist who works with victims of stealth torture observes that the feelings of shame, remorse and guilt ?would not have been experienced had the subjects been physically scarred.? Physical scars can be shown without shame; they win sympathy and recognition...