Iraq: The Same Old Atrocities Under Saddam

So much news has filtered out about Iraq, I feel like I'm watching captured German WWII news footage and reading about all the atrocities each time another story leaks out.  Remind me again, how many people and governments comprise the Geneva Convention and the United Nations?  With all this oversight by world governments, how on earth is the Iraqi government, comprised mostly of men, and patrolled by U.S. forces, able to just continue to slaughter the Iraqi women?  

What sort of threat do the Iraqi women pose here that they have to lay waste to them?  And what sort of Iraqi women perpetuate the hate that must fill that nation to the brim, that the atrocities continue?

This morning, yet another story of Iraqi atrocities, exactly the same atrocities that the nazis committed, barely survives a column on the left side of the Los Angeles Times front page.  It has to compete with "A yachtsman barred from the regatta to Ensenada" and "More Californians are missing their mortgage payments," and the final insult, "FDA signals shift in birth control debate."  Are we supposed to become accustomed to the filth in Iraq and Islam that permits the worst atrocities to continue well beyond the 11th Century?  Is there a DNA problem we should be investigating here?

Each time I look at an Iraqi foreign exchange student, or an Iraqi business man, I'm going to wonder if he had a part in any of this.  I may not step into a convenience store or hail a cab again in my entire life.  For a person who grew up around immigrants from the Middle East, and having friends in college from the same area, I am probably not going to associate with any of them ever again because I simply do not know if I'm talking to a nazi.  Plain and simple.  

The headline should read, "What The Hell Is Going On In Iraq?"  This is like, stop the news entirely while we get our priorities in order.  

According to Tina Susman (susman@latimes.com) "a young woman" was imprisoned in Iraq because the police wanted to question her brother, so she was raped, and when she was about 6 months pregnant, she called her brother, who came to see her, brought a gun, and shot her dead in this cell.  

What the &^^%$#@# ???  Is this what we’re paying for?  Is this what all the Homeland Security nonsense is about?  Is this the Patriot Act in action that is supposed to protect us, and the world from terrorism?  We go through all this to set up "The legitimate government of Iraq" and get this?  These people are nothing but a bunch of thugs worse than Saddam’s two kids?    

We’re helping to set up a legitimate government in Iraq while our entire economy goes down the toilet, so they can commit atrocities against helpless women?  Is that what our military is doing over there, helping insure a peaceful nation?  For this?

This is exactly what went on during Saddam.  These were the same reports that sparked the invasion of Iraq, atrocities committed against innocent women and children.  I am sure that everybody remembers the hype.   So now who goes in to save all these innocent people?  

The sooner we leave this place to rot in it’s own filth, the better.  Leave them to our enemies.  How's that for an inflammatory statement?  Something is very wrong in this place.  This appears to be Dante's Inferno, a place better off left to the ages to resolve.