"Saddam would have remained in power -- with all that entails: More mass graves, more children in prison, and more daily depredations of the Iraqi people. [Emphasis added]

"We discovered a prison for children -- all aimed at -- for Saddam Hussein to intimidate the people of Iraq. [Emphasis added]

"US Soldiers said to have abused jailed children According to the International Red Cross, more than one hundred children find themselves in Iraqi prisons, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. According to a report aired on the TV program "Report," [see here -S,N!] coalition troops are also thought to have abused children and minors. According to a press release issued by the network that broadcast the report: In an exclusive interview granted to Report Mainz, Samuel Provance, a non-commissioned officer who served in the Abu Ghraib prison, US military intelligence officers harrassed a young girl in her cell. Military police intervened only when the 15 to 16-year old girl had been partially undressed. [...] Suhaib Badr-Addin Al-Baz, a reporter for the Al-Jazeera network who spent 74 days at Abu Ghraib, says that a girl of approximately 12 years of age was beaten by US soldiers. [...] UNICEF has confirmed that Iraqi children have been imprisoned by foreign troops in Iraq.