Saddam Knows What Torture Is, His Theatrics Must Not Be Allowed to Overshadow the Record of His Rule

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SO Saddam Hussein, the butcher of Baghdad, says that U.S. troops beat and tortured him. Ever since false reports of soldiers "flushing the Koran" down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay - an impossibility given the book's size - every terrorist in custody has made such a claim.

Hussein's irrational cry of foul only underscores his own criminality. His charges were shouted out after a witness testified in his trial for his role in the murder of 146 Shiites from Dujail in 1982.

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Saddam Knows What Torture Is, His Theatrics Must Not Be Allowed to Overshadow the Record of His Rule

But the world nonetheless heard from Ali Hassan Mohammed al- Haidari. His testimony w...

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