The Horrors of Hussein

I just finished watching the tail end of an A&E special called, "Horrors of Hussein." All I can say is, "Too little, too late." This documentary, among others like it, should have been shown leading up to the war to garner more support for President Bush's decision to invade Baghdad. Now, Cindy Sheehan and her ridiculous ilk should be handcuffed to chairs and made to watch these things and then asked, "Do you still think your son died in vain?"

In the little time I have to blog, I thought I'd relay some of what I saw and pose the question to the liberal community, "Wouldn't this be enough of a reason to liberate these people?"

I came into the show as the narrator was talking about one of Saddam's ministers who had the courage to give Hussein an honest answer to a tough question. Saddam thanked the man for his candor and told him to leave. The minister's wife begged Hussein to return him home to her, assuring him that her husband had always been loyal to him. Hussein did return the man home, in a body bag, the minister's body cut to pieces.

As Saddam grew more paranoid, he only allowed a select few people to be his trusted aides. Among those people were his sons, now dead, thank God. Uday was the exhibitionist of the two, making no effort to cover his desire to torture and kill those whom he wished dead. As most know, he was given the ministry of sports, or whatever it was called. It is believed that he had 50 athletes murdered, and hundreds more tortured for not winning or doing exactly as he had expected.

One of his body doubles gave an account of his random impulse to torture people. They were in a hotel when Uday saw a honeymooning couple. He struck the husband, and grabbed the wife. His body double begged him to leave them alone. Uday hit him. He then had the husband beaten and dragged the wife to his room where he raped her. She then jumped off the top story of the hotel to her death.

Uday also had his own torture chambers. His favorite form of torture was laying a victim on his back, tying his feet in metal braces above his body and beating the soles of his feet with baseball bats, crushing the bones.

Like Hitler, Hussein kept records of over a million people. He kept records of torture, their family life, minute details. Still today our Coalition Forces are uncovering mass graves, and bodies seem to surface wherever they go.

Those who would say that President Bush is evil or Hitler are so grossly ignorant their very existence is a testament to a merciful God, as I've said before. We have absolutely no concept of what it is like to live under a tyrannical dictator, constantly in fear that whatever we say might have us tortured or murdered along with our family. If I were to speak against Pres. Bush, I never have to worry he would have my tongue cut out.

My hat's off to A&E, though I think the special should have been shown long before now. Maybe it was; I sure can hope. This information needs to be widespread to all the liberal camps who claim this war is evil and that war never solved anything. Ignorance is not bliss. It's downright dangerous.

What I saw would be reason enough to invade that country to liberate those poor people from the hell they called home. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like having lived under his reign of terror.

God bless them as they figure things out now and begin the long healing process that is so desperately needed. And God bless President Bush and our troops for starting that process.