  urlLink Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Everyday tales of Saddam's cruelty : "They were jailed, beaten, tortured or vilified for daring to express views that offended the president. Now eight Iraqis, from poets to political activists, tell Luke Harding what should happen to their tormentor" " I feel very strongly that an Iraqi court should try Saddam, and not an international one. He wasn't just a man: Saddam was a philosophy, a system; he was virtually a religion. We should try him. Saddam destroyed our lives and not the lives of people sitting comfortably in England. What he means to us Iraqis is completely different from what he means to you. You can't begin to understand. I was eight years old when Saddam came to power, and now I am 43. I feel that my life has been stolen from me. " 
