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Tuesday, September 30, 2003

From Snopes.com, an interesting transcript taken from the lecture notes of Don Walter, a U.S. District Court judge from Shreveport, Louisiana who went to Iraq to assist in rebuilding the judicial system.

[...] Despite my initial opposition to the war, I am now convinced, whether we find any weapons of mass destruction or prove Saddam sheltered and financed terrorists, absolutely, we should have overthrown the Baathists, indeed, we should have done it sooner.

What changed my mind? When we left mid June, 57 mass graves had been found, one with the bodies of 1200 children. There have been credible reports of murder, brutality and torture of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Iraqi citizens. There is poverty on a monumental scale and fear on a larger one. That fear is still palpable. I have seen the machines and places of torture. [...]

It's long, but worth the time to read, if nothing else as an example of the difference between criticism with the intent to promote a political position, and constructive criticism.

posted by Terry at 10:22:00 AM

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