President Meets with Victims of Saddam Hussein
and Discusses Progress in Iraq
"It's been my honor to visit with folks who know firsthand the brutality of Saddam Hussein. These are folks who have suffered, one way or the other, because the tyrant was a law unto himself, and was willing to deny people basic human rights. The stories here are compelling stories. They're stories of sadness and stories of bravery."
-- President George W. Bush January 18, 2006
Among the most infamous images of prisoner torture by American forces in Iraq, the hooded man attached to electrical wires has been told if he steps off the box he will be electrocuted. The caption asks, "got freedom?"
There are two separate questions being asked here. At what (and whose) price is our freedom supposedly 'defended' in our name? Second, is this the kind of liberty the Bush administration intended when it defined the invasion as "Operation Iraqi Freedom?"
