DNC Chair Dean: 'Women Will Be Worse Off In Iraq Than They Were When Saddam Hussein Was President'

This statement of Dr. Dean is obscene and is illustrative of the fact that the Democratic party has been taken over by leftists, who have no understanding of real evil.

The brutality of Saddam is well-known, so I will excerpt a must-read article about the treatment of women by one of the two heirs to the Iraqi throne, Uday:

A chef at Baghdad's exclusive Hunting Club recalls a wedding party that Uday crashed in the late 1990s. After Uday left the hall, the bride, a beautiful woman from a prominent family, went missing. "The bodyguards closed all the doors, didn't let anybody out," the chef remembers. "Women were yelling and crying, 'What happened to her?'" The groom knew. "He took a pistol and shot himself," says the chef, placing his forefinger under his chin.

Last October another bride, 18, was dragged, resisting, into a guardhouse on one of Uday's properties, according to a maid who worked there. The maid says she saw a guard rip off the woman's white wedding dress and lock her, crying, in a bathroom. After Uday arrived, the maid heard screaming. Later she was called to clean up. The body of the woman was carried out in a military blanket, she said. There were acid burns on her left shoulder and the left side of her face. The maid found bloodstains on Uday's mattress and clumps of black hair and peeled flesh in the bedroom. A guard told her, "Don't say anything about what you see, or you and your family will be finished."

Here's another brutal anecdote from the Middle East Quarterly:

Uday reportedly murdered at least half a dozen women and tortured countless others. When one woman complained about the abuse, Uday had her stripped naked, covered in honey and killed by three starving Dobermans.

It is not enough to write off Howard Dean as a nutter. As the head of the Democratic party, he is generally only criticized internally for the style of his statements; rarely for their content. Here is a must-read column by Dennis Prager on why liberal activists have a blindness for true evil:

The world is filled with evil, and young idealists like Rachel Corrie don't like it. Which is lovely. But they don't confront real evil because they know they will get hurt. That's one reason there are no "peace activists" or "human shields" confronting Islamic terror, North Korean totalitarianism, or Chinese Communist despotism.

So, what's an idealist to do if she refuses to confront real evil but wants to feel good about herself? Ironically, confront those who fight real evil. That's why Rachel Corrie and the millions marching to protect Saddam Hussein's Iraq have never uttered a peep against Palestinian terror, Iraqi totalitarianism, or North Korean gulags. Instead, they focus their animosity at the countries that confront these evils -- the United States and Israel.

Of course, moral relativists obfuscate contending that America has its share of evildoers. See, for example, today's story about Mike Tyson's latest yachting excursion, in which his defense against assaulting and kidnapping his female passenger was that he was a "good boy" and not a "killer."

The fallacy is that the potential for moral depravity is inherent in human nature. The question of the good society is whether a justice system will check man's inherent moral depravity.