In Case You Needed A Reason

A story from the Sunday Denver Post regarding the victims of Iraq's bloody past. Whether you believe that Iraq had WMDs or not, these accounts provide justification for ousting Saddam:

"Everything, even in my body, reminds me," she (Laila Qabani) said later at the couple's Lakewood apartment, referring to a cigarette burn on her hand, a scar from a skewer on her forearm, numb fingertips where captors attached electrodes. Wincing, she told of a gang rape in the Olympic compound run by Hussein's son Odai - punishment, Laila said, because she had refused to collaborate with Odai in a business venture.

The article also put into perspective the abuses at Abu Ghraib relative to what the Iraqis endured under Hussein:

Americans need to grasp that U.S. abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison are "a small fire," Kareem said, compared with abuses under Hussein. Thousands of children born to women raped in prison are evidence of what happened before, he said.

"Where was the American media when I was in prison and when that happened to my wife?" he asked.