As many as 290,000 Iraqis murdered and stacked in 270 mass graves. . . Thousands of women raped while their husbands or fathers watched--and the men thereafter tortured and killed. . . Indeed, prior to Iraqi liberation, Saddam's oldest son made rape a "hobby" (according to the son's press secretary!).Two decades of UN hand-waving didn't save Iraqis. U.S. led regime change did. This, obviously, is a good thing.
Not if you're a UN bureaucrat, such as Hans Blix:
Iraq is worse off now, after the U.S.-led invasion, than it was under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper Tuesday.Yes, Hans, a few thousand Iraqi civilians were killed, along with a few hundred coalition troops. But, Hans, since the fall of Saddam: how many Iraqis went to mass graves? How many were raped or tortured? Did more starve this year, as opposed to last year, in Iraq? Has freedom of speech or religion decreased in the past 12 months? Are Iraq's oil resources still being squandered on empty palaces?
"What's positive is that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when figuring out the score, the negatives weigh more," the former chief U.N. weapons inspector was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Jyllands Posten.
"That accounts for the many casualties during the war and the many people who still die because of the terrorism the war has nourished," he said. "The war has liberated the Iraqis from Saddam, but the costs have been too great."
What an ass. How typical of the U.N. A poster-child for multilateralism.
