Posted 1:27 AM by Steve
Biggest story of the decade so far:

U.N. Oil-for-Food fiasco

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/final_off_report.pdf

Posted 12:31 AM by Steve
Two thousand American service members dead in Iraq. It is tragic that even a single life must be lost in the fight for peace, justice, human rights and democracy. Tragic but honorable. The media likes numbers all of the sudden? Here are some numbers:

March 2003 start of Iraq War to present: 2 years and seven months

To put numbers in perspective let's examine the recent history of Iraq.

Saddam's Hussein regime in Iraq: 26 years

Many hundreds of thousands were killed under Saddam's regime.

Documented chemical attacks by the regime, from 1983 to 1988 resulted in 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.

In the 20th century totalitarian governments, like Hussein's Iraq, killed well over 170 million of their own citizens. Comparatively,in the same period, wars and armed conflicts killed 40 million.

War is hell. People die in war, but it is infinitely preferable to Democide (Death at the hands of one's own government.)

Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's systematic ethnic cleansing of the Kurds resulted in between 50,000-100,000 deaths.

Iraq's 13 million Shia Muslims lived under active religious persecution.

From 1998 to 2003 400,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died of malnutrition and disease because Saddam Hussein subverted the U.N. Oil-for Food program into a hugely profitable racket. Tell the Iraqi mother of a starving child that the war was "for oil".



Saddam Hussein ordered summary executions of prisoners including 4000 murders at Abu-Ghraib in 1984 and 3,000 murders at Mahjar prison from 1993-1996

Mass graves are still being unearthed in Iraq.