This newsweek article is a verrry indepth article that
gives personal accounts of the Iraqi regime in pre war
Iraq, its kind of disturbing but not more than I
expected.

] ... a thoroughgoing system to make repression pay was
] meticulously documented. In the last days before the city
] fell, the party attempted to remove the paperwork,
] filling a truck container (disguised with Red Cross and
] Red Crescent stickers) with incriminating materials. But
] there was nowhere to run, and now the contents spill into
] the courtyard, where looters and scavengers pick through
] the debris

Caution: This can be a disturbing article to read, with detailed descriptions of torture, executions and other atrocities.