Submitted by Turner, Mar 5, 2008 23:14

Al Quada was found torturing people in the early days when they retreated into Pakistan. In reading about the tortures of the Baathists and reading between the lines of what they left behind in Iraq and Kuwait, the Mukhabarat did things even worse than you're article describes. Mentioning them here would only create seeds to sprout more monsters.

Torture answers the same question that democracy does: If people live together in a group, how do we deal with the fact that people have opposing opinions. Saddam seemed to use torture to control people's thoughts more than for information, and that is the primary purpose of torture. It was interesting to see the evidence of Saddam's people tyring to hide the really hideous stuff. They apparently had turned into animals and were ashamed of their sadistic hunger.

I'm not worried that some of the former Baathists leaked out into the world as Al Quada zealots. My original support for invading Iraq was to eliminate as much of this sickness as we could, and the Iraqis had suffered too much, for too long under Saddam. The more this ancient evil was allowed to grow in Iraq, the more inevitable it was that it would rupture and leak into the world. The inner beast was so strong in these people that I don't think that they will ever blend into western society. The will always strike the instincts of normal people as having something wrong about them.

Good luck in Iraq.

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