Read it and swell with pride:

In the case of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who headed Saddam Hussein's air force, intelligence officers' role was documented in abuse that soon turned fatal, documents show,

Mowhoush, considered a "high-priority target," turned himself in for questioning in November, according to documents. After two weeks in custody at an Al Qaim detention facility, northwest of Baghdad, two soldiers with the 66th Military Intelligence Company, slid a sleeping bag over his body, except for his feet, and began questioning him as they rolled him repeatedly from his back to his stomach, the documents show.

Then, one of the soldiers, an interrogator, sat on Mowhoush's chest and placed his hands over the prisoner's mouth, according to the report: "During this interrogation, the (general) became non-responsive, medics were called and he was later pronounced dead." According to the documents, "The preliminary report lists the cause of death as asphyxia due to smothering and chest compressions."

Immediately after Mowhoush's death was reported, U.S. military officials released a statement acknowledging he died during an interview.

"Mowhoush said he didn't feel well and subsequently lost consciousness," read the press statement, which is still posted on a Pentagon website. "The soldier questioning him found no pulse, then conducted CPR and called for medical authorities. According to the on-site surgeon, it appeared Mowhouse died of natural causes."

[link|http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11676~2157003,00.html|Denver Post]

In this connection we can recall the prescient musings of our own L'il Phil, who on the eve of the Head Baddie's capture shared with us his keen analysis of the Wog Mind (emphases added):

This illustrates all of the fundamental weaknesses of an autocratic regime. The key to defeating them is to take away their initiative. Like I said before, kill the nervous system and the monster dies. Even the most fanantical of their soldiers, the ones with a vested interest in the tyranny pro ante, were unable to take initiative, because they had grown up without freedom.

The monster is laregely incapacitated now, but still a bit of a nuisance. When we find and kill the brain - Saddam - it will breathe its last.

[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=129362|his very words]—and the prescription certainly worked on the late General Mowhoush.

It's Marlowe of AbuGhraibia! Thank goodness we have the ex-president in custody, eh? Life for our Brave Boys has certainly been easier since we took the locals' initiative away from them.

cordially,

Let our Philbot thrust his snout deeply into [link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43783-2004May20.html|this] and [link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43785-2004May20.html|this]. In for a dime, in for a dollar, and surely marlowe has earned a thorough wallow in the blessings of civilization we've brought to the benighted bedouins. Hell, he might even get off on it.

cordially,