Saddam Hussein 's Trial and Final Verdict.

Layla Anwar

Call me a masochist . Everyone now and then I need to go back to the Abu Ghraib pictures. The reason why I keep going back to them is not some perverted need to see mutilated male genitals lying next to a tortured bleeding Iraqi. The images actually leave me sleepless. The real reason I keep going back to them is simply because I need to remind myself of the holocaust the Iraqis are going through under the name of Freedom and Democracy. I keep staring at the pictures and hear the sounds that come from Abu Ghraib, Haditha, Ramadi,Mahmoudiah. ...I hear the screams of torture and pain. I hear the cries of raped women and see them banging their heads against steel walls till death visits them. I see Iraqi prisoners with no trial, electrocuted and covered with excrements drinking urine from buckets handed to them by American and British soldiers . I see them forcefully masturbating themselves at gunpoint and then shot dead once they reach the ultimate American Orgasm. I see hooded men , made to stroll naked , famished and humiliated , reminding of Nazi Ghettos. I see 655'000 Iraqis dead , their souls hovering over Babylon awaiting Justice. I see 1 million Iraqi Females. Widows with dependents and nowhere to go. I see the 1.5 million victims - majority of which are babies - dead because of 12 years of brutal sanctions. I see cancer ridden children , women and men because of Depleted Uranium (...) I see Saddam Hussein in a cage , like a trapped animal guarding whatever is left of his dignity. And amidst all of that , I wonder who should really be on Trial today and what the final verdict should be ?

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