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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE UNDER SADDAM:
“Twenty five years ago,” [Ali] begins, checking his mobile, as if in the last five minutes he’d somehow missed someone calling in a news flash, “my brother Samir was playing football in a field here in Basra. On the highway nearby passed a convoy of Baath-party officials. Someone shot at the Baathi — or perhaps simply fired a weapon in the air, who knows? Unsure who was responsible or why, the Baathists arrested everyone playing football and took them to prison.”
Months went by, and the government refused to say what happened to Samir. With his family growing increasingly distraught, Ali took the hazardous step of visiting the party’s Basra headquarters to ask about his brother’s whereabouts. In response to his query, the Baathists arrested Ali, accusing him of belong to the Shia opposition group, Dawa Islamiyya — as had, so they claimed, Samir. (Accusing someone of membership in Dawa was an all-purpose charge the regime used to “disappear” its citizens.) “I was sent to prison for trying to find out if my brother was alive or dead,” Ali says.
He was kept in prison for 9 months and tortured sadistically. His brother was killed. Yet the Left thinks such a regime didn’t support terrorists (even though a bipartisan Senate committee found otherwise. )
America did a noble, historic, admirable, brave thing, in freeing the Iraqis.
