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Source: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20031030-secdef0829.html
Brutality of Saddam's Iraq on Video
(U.S. Defense Department) Asked about a recent videotape declassified for release to the media, Secretary of Defense Rumsfield said he had seen such tapes, that "portray a regime that was about as vicious as any regime could conceivably be." "When you have people filming, in front of crowds cheering and clapping, you have people cutting off people's tongues, and cutting off people's heads, and chopping off their fingers and chopping off their hands, throwing them off three-story buildings, you learn something about a group of people and how they live their lives and how they treated their people. And we are so fortunate they are gone and that those 23 million people are liberated."