> Nobody doubts that Saddam was a cruel and ruthless tyrant who murdered
> many thousands of his own people and that most Iraqis are glad he's
> gone. But did his regime have a machine that made mincemeat of men? The
> evidence is far from compelling.
Shades of the Huns impaling Belgian babies in WW I (or whatever it was).
War propaganda doesn't change very much from war to war.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt