I still haven’t heard back from the attorney regarding the article I had hoped to post in the last couple of days. So, for the time being, I haven’t posted it and I’ve been occupied with other things.

Meanwhile, I’ve had some conversations with people who suggest that the war in Iraq was justified because we removed Saddam Hussein from power. And, among other crimes he commited that warranted the United States overthrowing his government, these friends say “he used chemical weapons against his own people!”

Well, I suppose the difference here is that, even though we’ve appropriated the country and all its resources, the people themselves aren’t considered “ours.”

Be warned if you visit that link. The article is titled Melting the Skin Off Children and contains some rather graphic photographs of children with their skin melted off, including a very, very young baby.

Now I know why our President doesn’t find torturing adults to be a problem. Next to melting the skin off innocent children, that’s nothing.