Iraq Readies Torture Museum On Saddam Anniversary

Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The man putting together Iraq's newest museum doesn't like to be alone in his office, where he keeps bloodied nooses, a medieval-looking torture device and boxes of documents chronicling atrocities under Saddam Hussein.

"It's uncomfortable. You feel as if there's someone there with you," said the soft-spoken court official, who asked to go unnamed. To escape the eeriness, he works alongside colleagues next door.

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Comments

[Anciano]

Are they going to set up a museum showing the thousands of Iraqi feti and babies born with the most incredible defects caused by our use of depleted uranium all over the country? People always find deformed babies much more interesting than mere hardware. Google DU babies "images" if you want to see some for your self. Oh yeah, unlike the torture devices which will eventually rust and rot, the DU will last for half a million years.

[evilzed]

the really sick thing is that torture is being done now, under US law.
History still continues and captives, mostly innocent are still dieing today under the hands of American Troops and Co-ilition.
Here we talk about a monument of torture, yet it has not stopped and is routinely paraded in the media as if its trivial.
Under the new Homegrown Radicalization Act, everyday concerned Americans are now being held, with no order, indefinately, with ability to be tortured TODAY LEGALLY.
This exact set of laws happened under Hitler, yet again the people have not learnt.
History is repeating itself.

[Wolf Larsen]

So what kind of a museum are we going to build here in America to chronicle all the torture techniques of Bush and Cheney?

[Pema]

I was thinking tghe samne, dont forget kandhara ir base, the golags, the prison ships

etc etc etc

[vtlt8]

Right next to the one chronicling the history of you being such a huge f*g.

[whatsthatsound]

That merits an equally witty retort such as "I know you are, but what am I!"

[ConfuciusSay-]

Ashamed of your President's legacy?

[StillAmused]

Short bus left without you again, huh?

[Wolf Larsen]

Halliburton will build it for twice the stated contract and Cheney will dedicate it......lovingly I might add.

[Rog49Thomas]

Is there a school attached to the museum?

[mudshark12]

The museum is a good idea because it offers physical proof of what happened so that years from now it will cut the ground out from under future "Saddam deniers", as the Holocaust Museum(s) does the same for the Holocaust deniers of today. I might add that Saddam's death and this new museum are two of too few "good" results of our INVASION of a country that did NOT attack us. Sure, Saddam was a thorn in America's collective foot but was a 6 year war worth it? 99% of Americans would say "Hell No!", the 1% remaining are war-mongering idiots!

[texasrodeoqueen]

Is it in Dallas, TX?

[Bernique]

This is SICK, depraved, grotesque. I hope the newly-democratic, newly-free Iraq government will do away with this monstrosity as soon as they are in charge of their country. Which is THIS THURSDAY.

[instagladiator]

Now what kind of deal did W make with those folks to get this out before he "gets his butt outta office"??

[whatsthatsound]

All the posters here who are so sardonically suggesting that the typical Huffpo poster wants to think things were just peachy under Saddam are now no doubt hoping (and perhaps enlisting) that the U.S. will next invade Congo, North Korea, Sudan and Myanmar.

Of course.

[LeeCalif]

Next to Bush's ???

[motoGpifupleez]

The Cheney/"W"/Rumsfeld wing will be financed by Haliburton, KBR, Bechtel, and Blackwater (who will have their own special monument-Nisor, it wasn't our fault)

[StillAmused]

Any truth to the rumor that Cheney will consult on the Abu Ghraib display?

[SinisterK9]

If there was an Abu Gharib display there, it would be the Rated "G" portion of a Rated "R" experience.

[StillAmused]

Our abuses are better than their abuses.

Profound.

[lburnham]

Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi once said something to the effect that the abused must be publicly heard before healing can begin. Until they are heard, the outrage will continue. This museum is one step in the right direction, whomever is behind it. Another very effective method is public storytelling with a skilled facilitator.

[BillMelater]

Yea, just wait until they make a museum to our torture practices...

I'm sure they won't want to forget them either.