Got this off the Memphis board.

good stuff
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am not condoning what happened to the Iraqi
> > > prisoners...however, I
> > > think it is vitally important that in my head I have
> > > these matters in
> > > proper perspective...
> > >
> > > * Saddam had Iraqi men, women and children put to
> > > death in human meat
> > > grinders on a daily basis...NO OUTCRY FROM THE IRAQI
> > > PEOPLE OR THE ARAB
> > > COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > *Saddam had people thrown off of 3 - 4 story
> > > buildings, while their
> > > relatives were forced to watch...NO OUTCRY FROM THE
> > > IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE
> > > ARAB COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Saddam had people's tongues cut out, limbs chopped
> > > of, and even
> > > beheaded, while their families were forced to
> > > watch...NO OUTCRY FROM THE
> > > IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE ARAB COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Saddam's sons, as well as other Administrators and
> > > military personnel
> > > raped and sodomized Iraqi girls, some as young as 8
> > > years old, on a daily
> > > basis...NO OUTCRY FROM THE IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE ARAB
> > > COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Saddam's regime indiscriminately put to death
> > > millions of Iraqi
> > > citizens on a daily basis, during the term of his
> > > brutal dictatorship, as
> > > evidenced by the mass graves recently uncovered in
> > > various parts of
> > > Iraq...NO OUTCRY FROM THE IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE ARAB
> > > COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Terrorists recently exploded several car bombs in
> > > Baghdad, killing 17
> > > innocent Iraqi children and several dozen innocent
> > > Iraqi citizens...NO
> > > OUTCRY FROM THE IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE ARAB COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Terrorists have been killing American/Coalition
> > > soldiers on a daily
> > > basis since we sent our troops, many of whom gave
> > > their lives on Iraqi
> > > soil, used US taxpayer dollars to liberate the Iraqi
> > > people...NO OUTCRY
> > > FROM THE IRAQI PEOPLE OR THE ARAB COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > * Four Americans were killed in Fallujah, their bodies
> > > were burned,
> > > mutilated, dragged through the streets and hung on a
> > > bridge...while Iraqi
> > > people cheered and stoned the bodies....NO OUTCRY FROM
> > > THE IRAQI PEOPLE OR
> > > THE ARAB COMMUNITY...
> > >
> > > AND NOW, A FEW IRAQI PRISONERS HAVE BEEN HUMILIATED
> > > (poor babies)...A
> > > PAIR OF WOMEN'S Underwear PUT ON THE PRISONERS HEADS,
> > > A FEW NAKED
> > > PHOTOGRAPHS...AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE ARAB
> > > COMMUNITY GO
> > > Ballistic...GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
> > >
> > > As said, I don't condone what happened to the
> > > prisoners..but until the
> > > Iraqi's and the Arab Community gets their act
> > > together...,