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"Hate something, change something", song lyrics on my mind...

Don't read this blogger's expose of one aspect of Sodhim's reign because it might break your heart.

From Michael J. Totten's post about the genocide museum in "Suleimaniya...the most liberal city in Iraqi Kurdistan."

"The entrance to the genocide museum is in the back of the building. To get there from the front you have to walk past one of the rape rooms. Women’s underwear and contraceptives were found in that room when the prison was liberated by the Peshmerga."

"The hardest thing to see was the cell used to hold children before they were murdered. My translator Alan read some of the messages carved into the wall."

“I was ten years old. But they changed my age to 18 for execution.”

"Dear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again.”

"10,725 people were killed in this one building alone. All died during torture. Formal execution actually took place in Abu Ghraib."

Bloggers like Michael J. Totten and Michael Yon write timely stories the antique media will not. There's more heart in one little sentence of theirs, than all the pages of the biased, unprofitable, antique media. I don't want to cry on a beautiful Saturday morning, but my choice of reading material blows that desire out of the water.

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