WORSE THAN SADDAM

It’s inevitable. Across the world, after the hideous pictures of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, headlines will announce that the U.S. is as bad, if not worse than Saddam. Finally, the far left will concede the evil of Saddam, but only so they can declare the U.S. worse. Here’s the Sydney Morning Herald’s version. They have one single quote to justify their headline: “US abuse worse than Saddam’s, say inmates.” Here’s the quote:

Mr Shweiri said that while jailed by Saddam’s regime he was electrocuted, beaten and suspended from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back. “But that’s better than the humiliation of being stripped naked,” he said. “Shoot me here,” he added, pointing between his eyes, “but don’t do this to us.”

Who’s Shweiri? “Mr Shweiri, 30, is a diehard fighter in the Mehdi Army, the anti-US militia of a Shiite Muslim imam.” I want the morons and perverts who did this to be punished to the most severe extent possible because of the evil of what they did and the damage they have done to what is a noble and important cause. But even then, the equation with Saddam is grotesque and wrong. Please send in examples of the anti-war media peddling this notion. They need to be exposed.