"People getting their hands cut off"

[No2W2004]

Shrub mentioned this as one reason that Iraqis were better off without Saddam. If this is the case, let's look at one of Iraq's neighbors from a report by the CBC...

Prisoners have stated that they were forced to sign false confessions. Methods of getting prisoners to sign include electric shock, cigarette burns, nail-pulling, beatings and threats to family members. There are reports that some prisoners have died as a result.

Flogging and amputation of limbs are used extensively as judicial punishments. They can be applied to many offences ranging from alcohol and sexual offenses to theft. Men, women and children are flogged in prisons and in public squares around the country. There is no upper limit on the number of lashes judges can order. The most lashes ever recorded was 4,000 given to an Egyptian national who was convicted of robbery.

......also has one of the highest rates of executions in the world. This sentence can be applied to a wide range of offenses including 'witchcraft' and 'sexual crimes' both considered 'corruption on earth'.

Guess that when the Saudis do it, it isn't so bad, huh George?

Wonder how many "witches" you've seen beheaded Geroge?

Have you and Bandar smoked cigars while watching kids get flogged for stealing bread George?

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/saudi/justice.html

[liberal N proud]

1. It hard work to work with your hands cut off

[shadu]

2. People with their hands cut off send mixed messages!

You must attack!

[Malva Zebrina]

3. It is his fascination with sadism and

with urban legends. He can invoke this for political reasons, but does not see the little babies or children who have been horribly mutilated, who have more than a hand missing, or who died a painful death, by his bombs, or the vets who have been blinded and lost limbs due to his , Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Libby and Cheney's lies to use our youngest and strongest to go to Iraq under false pretenses and die there. Indeed, he orders that no pictures be taken of their flag draped coffins arriving in the middle of the night--they arrive incognito--some honor he gives to them.

That horror is worse than a tribal custom in a tribal land where this type of justice is and has been for centuriesm, accepted by it's citizens.

[No2W2004]

4. Agreed

but this is something that Shrubco has never been called on. How they can use "torture chambers" as justification to occupy Iraq after the WMDs didn't show up, but they seem to not care much about the same things going on in Saudi Arabia.

[rustydog]

5. Hey George, since your military toppled Saddam..

Iraqis have been murdered by troops and contractors, they have been anally raped by Americans.
So, Saddam raping and killing his people is bad, Americans raping and killing iraqis is good?
No wonder you got your ass kicked in the debate, your thought process is severely retarded.