Paul Bremer tells of horrors in Iraq, says war justified

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Paul Bremer tells of horrors in Iraq, says war justified


Former Iraq administrator Paul Bremer III, who was in charge of America's efforts to reconstruct Iraq, took on the contentious topic of rebuilding Iraq, asserting Tuesday that Saddam's Hussein's regime was modeled after Adolf Hitler's and that despite the lack of evidence for weapons of mass destruction, the United States was correct to intervene because Iraqis were suffering from horrific conditions.

Bremer said the "horrors of Saddam's regime" fully struck him and his team when they found their first Iraqi mass grave.

"I saw a grave the size of three football fields, and between the bones, veiled women were looking for their relatives," Bremer said.

"Most Americans have never seen such an appalling scene ," he said. "Every police station had a torture chamber, some even had rape chambers. In there, there were human shredding machines. They started at your toes to maximize the suffering."