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Iraq human rights as bad as under Saddam



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Who could forget the wingnuts telling everyone that even if WMDs were not found, it was still worth while removing Saddam because he was such an evil character. So what will they have to say about this from the former UN human rights official in Iraq?

John Pace, who last month left his post as director of the human rights office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, said the level of extra-judicial executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by both government-backed militia and insurgents not to properly investigate deaths.

"Under Saddam, if you agreed to forgo your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK," Pace said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone."


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