2005-11-17 08:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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digitaldiscipline[from Yahoo News - Phosphorus Disclosures Hurt US-Iraqi Image]
"It's extremely damaging," said Abdel-Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper and a frequent commentator on Iraq, referring to the torture bunker and the use of white phosphorus munitions in the Sunni Arab city of Falluja.
"It's the worst nightmare scenario for the Americans and the new rulers of Iraq because it undermines all their propaganda against the old regime," he told Reuters in London.
"Saddam's regime never pretended to be democratic or a champion of human rights. But the Americans are supposed to be the leaders of the free world, while those practising torture represent the new Iraq, which is supposed to be democratic and defending human rights.
"How can they face their people? They should be ashamed."
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The Americans who bother to think are asking exactly the same fucking question, Mr. Atwan.
"It's extremely damaging," said Abdel-Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper and a frequent commentator on Iraq, referring to the torture bunker and the use of white phosphorus munitions in the Sunni Arab city of Falluja.
"It's the worst nightmare scenario for the Americans and the new rulers of Iraq because it undermines all their propaganda against the old regime," he told Reuters in London.
"Saddam's regime never pretended to be democratic or a champion of human rights. But the Americans are supposed to be the leaders of the free world, while those practising torture represent the new Iraq, which is supposed to be democratic and defending human rights.
"How can they face their people? They should be ashamed."
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The Americans who bother to think are asking exactly the same fucking question, Mr. Atwan.
