Iraq: the healing process ain't even begun on Saddam

"Iraqis Begin Confronting The Burdens of the Past: Millions Persecuted by Hussein May Seek Redress," by Doug Struck, Washington Post, 13 July, p. A11.

Saddam Hussein's trial will be a doozy, but only a small part of the national healing involving all his regime's many victims. In the past 14 months, Iraqi officials have generated files of state crimes from families of 200,000 people killed and 40,000 political prisoners. They estimate that these numbers represent just the tip of the icebergómaybe one-twentieth of the actual numbers that will be inevitably uncovered.

Jesse Helms' used to publicize a list of 131 foreign companies that did business with Saddam's regime, or what he called "Iraq's Foreign Legion." T.M. Lutas' point about "collaborators" in the Core will be amply made when the full story finally emerges.