[lbo-talk] Courageous Ba'ath Insurgents Strike Another Blow For Freedom and Democracy!

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.geocities.com/tom_slouck/iraq/saddam_prisoner_amnesty.html
> ...The rights groups have said Iraq's prison population has been swollen 
> by tens of thousands of political detainees as well as by tens of 
> thousands of others convicted of ordinary criminal offenses in a system 
> that can give an offender a 15-year sentence for stealing $2 worth of 
> groceries...

  Or 135 yrs. for robbery, 
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002w43/msg00046.htm .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1022/p07s01-wome.html >...The entire 
population of his serious crimes prison – as many as 9,000 men – was 
released, Ibrahim said, including murderers on death row...

   http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0210/21/nation-618046.htm The ever 
popular slogan, " "We sacrifice our blood and souls for Saddam!" Ah, but, I 
remember during Gulf War, version 1.0, pwoggies said we shouldn't, like 
Bush 41, say, "Saddam." (Course he said it like Sodom. Like Steve typed. Or 
as a nutty Kucinich supporter on a list w/ Jeffrey Blankfort, said, 
"Saddammite, " who until I sent him a note, offlist, calling attn. to Oscar 
Wilde and the Father of Bosie wriiting, "Somdomite, " this unconscious 
snidery was not unnoticed.)

   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/43044148.cms , "Victims 
of Saddam's regime narrate harrowing tales." 
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3068335/ >...Saddam Hussein's ear-amputation 
campaign went on for three days, May 17-19, 1994, in every city in Iraq. 
Some of the estimated 3,500 men who lost their ears are now telling their 
stories. By Rod Nordland
Newsweek Web Exclusive