The following are not stories of how Saddam Hussain's authoities treated their prisoners, They are stories of how the Americans treated theirs.

Last Night I watched a mouthpiece for the Bush administration explain that combatants captured in war cannot be set free. I seem to remember in the first Gulf war Americans demanded the release of their men captured by Iraqis and were horrified when they were shown on t and even worse they had bruises. Imagine if the Iraqis had treated the Americans in teh way that Americans treat others.

After all it is the Americans and their allies who are the foreign fighters who invaded a soveriegn state, probably illegally and the Iraqis had little or nothing to do with Ak Quaeda before the infrastructure was destroyed by the invaders.

................"We understand and we want to let the other families know that we're in support. Every single soldier with a uniform on was doing something for his country." - Quote by an American family who's son died in Iraq

...............Adel Warda, 48, who owns a small market, said such fear was new for Iraqi Christians.

"We never felt like this during Saddam's time. No one was bothering us. It was safe. We did not have any car bombs, explosions, attacks on churches or mosques. I do not care if he was bad or not, but he never bothered us," Warda said. "The Americans said they came to fight the terrorists, but in fact the terrorists came when [the Americans] came here and they started fighting. Both sides destroyed our country."...................

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24875-2004Dec24.html?referrer=email

New York Times

Detainees Describe Abuses by Guard in Iraq Prison

Published: January 12, 2005

...................But the detainees said Specialist Graner had become the face of the American enemy.

"That Graner guy, he is a man that hurt his country, hurt his people," Mr. Al-Sheikh said, shaking his head

Mr. Mutar said: "Saddam didn't do this to us."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/international/12abuse.html?th