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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 08:44 PM
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The American Dream your tax dollars at work...
This is an amazing article about the type of swindlers our
tax dollars have been funding in Iraq and in the USSA.

http://www.esquire.com/cgi-bin/printtool/print.cgi?pages=9&filename=%2Ffeatures%2Farticles%2F2004%2F041222_mfe_dream.html&x=58&y=13

The American Dream

By Sara Solovitch

In all of Iraq, Jumana Hanna was the bravest witness to the horror of Saddam's regime, telling the Americans of torture, rape, and mass murder. In Washington, Hanna became a potent symbol of Iraqi liberation, and the Bush administration brought Hanna and her children to the United States for their protection. Then the author discovered the really horrible truth.

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Her case was given top priority by Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who was in Iraq as senior policy advisor at the interior ministry; he assigned two military investigators to look into her claims. Their investigation lasted four months. Having heard her description of the prison concealed behind the Baghdad Police Academy, with its dead tree stumps still trussed with barbed wire for yoking and raping women prisoners, Kerik went to see for himself. "To be physically there, to look at the barbed wire that was hooked into the trees, to think about the stories she told and then actually see the devices they used . . ." He paused. "It was sickening."

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She was raped for days. A virgin when she entered, she heard the guards ask "Master Uday" what he wanted to do with her blood. He ordered them to sprinkle it around the rim of his whiskey glass like salt on a margarita. "I called out to Jesus, to Mary, and to Muhammad," she said. "They damned them all."

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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 08:53 PM
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1. Wouldn't calling out to Jesus put her at more risk? And
the sub-vampire-genre story seems a tad too far fetched.

Propaganda. Everybody says their own. Unless we're there firsthand to see it, why should we believe at face value what anyone says?
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 08:57 PM
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2. That is the point...
we pay professional liars to make up this crap.

This article pretty much eviscerates any credibility
of this "victim". It is a little long and starts off
with the straight version but I think it really makes
the questions obvious.
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Paul Hood Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 09:06 PM
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3. Her mother's name was Jeanne d'Arc like Joan of Arc? n/t
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 10:52 PM
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4. That part of the story appears...
that it may be true.
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 01:28 PM
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5. kick n/t
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