10/20/2004 07:17:51 AM|||Toni|||BLACKFIVE: They're Not Just Numbers!

This is a story about Dennis Pintor and what he was doing in Iraq. Just remember the people Dennis describes below are the same people Michael Moore called "the minutemen of Islam" just like our American minutemen fighting for our freedom from England.

Because of the nature of my job, I always try to remember that the people we kill on the other side are also humans, that they also have families and brothers and sisters and wives and children. Some of them, I have seen, did not even have shoes on when they died. It is an almost forgivable poverty they fight from.

What makes a difference to me is that their goals are to turn this country into one with fewer freedoms than before we came, to enforce an extreme religious government that suppresses liberty and worse, exports their intolerance. It makes a difference to me that when we raided the Kufa and Imam Ali Mosque we found hundreds of bodies that had been tortured and executed. Some had had their eyes drilled out; others - men, women, and children - their genitals mutilated; almost all – men, women, and children - had been sexually assaulted. Holy warriors indeed.|||109827467114006603|||BLACKFIVE: They're Not Just Numbers!