Regards, Ivan
Posted on 10/13/2004 3:08:55 AM PDT by MadIvan
A mass grave containing the bodies of children, babies and their mothers has been unearthed in Iraq.
Shocked investigators reported finding "thighbones the size of matchsticks" at what they believe is the site of one of Saddam Hussein's atrocities. Among the findings-were the skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys.
A baby had been shot in the back of its head and was found still being clutched by its mother, who had been shot in the face. The discovery was reported as Tony Blair came under mounting pressure to apologise to Parliament for the misleading intelligence claiming Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
It will strengthen the Prime Minister's case that despite the intelligencefailures the war to topple the Iraqi dictator was justified by his record as a mass killer of his own people. Mr Blair is facing MPs for the first time since the Iraq Survey Group report last week admitted there were no illegal chemical and biological weapons in Iraq.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles
Kennedy demanded he make a full Commons statement on the findings but Mr Blair was hoping to escape by merely answering questions at his regular weekly appearance.
The mass grave was being excavated near Hatra, a village in northern Iraq with a large Kurdish population. US-led investigators have located nine trenches so far containing hundreds of bodies, believed to be Kurds killed during the repression of the Eighties. The bodies had been bulldozed into the ground.
Evidence from the graves will be used at the Iraqi Special Tribunal where Saddam will face trial for war crimes. "It is my personal opinion that this is a killing field," said Greg Kehoe, a US official. "Someone used this field on significant occasions over time to take people up there and execute them."
One trench contains only women and children while another contains only men. "The youngest foetus we have was 18 to 20 foetal weeks," said a US investigating anthropologist. "Tiny bones, femurs - thighbones the size of a matchstick."
Some 300,000 people are thought to have been killed during Saddam's regime. Iraq's human rights ministry has reportedly identified 40 possible mass graves across the country.
Meanwhile, Saddam underwent an operation to repair a hernia about 10 days ago and has made a full recovery, Iraqi sources said today.
He has been in US custody since 13 December and appeared in court in July for a preliminary hearing.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
I thought that Hanoi John said that Saddam was not a bad guy. Sean Penn even backed him up! WTF OVER?
Hanoi John would not lie to us...
Fighting a war to stop these monsters can always be justified by all measures, unless you get kickbacks from oil for food or if you are a third world dictator lover like many libs are.
Maybe John Edwards could channel the voices of a few of these dead children.
Crowds should ask him when he makes campaign appearances.
Obviously not unlike our own abortion mills...Sadam Hussein IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Why should Tony Blair ever apologize to his parliament for putting a stop to these insane massacres?
Damn right. (Helping to) free Iraq was the best thing Blair ever did.
Blair, and the NuLabour he created, should go for putting taxes up by 16p in the pound and presiding over a huge increase in unproductive public sector growth.
But Iraq - no doubt about it, it was the right thing to do. Many's the time I've been the lone Conservative in a room of NuLabour supporters supporting Blair *against them* because of this one issue.
Aw come on. This is only a nuisance.
I'm just waiting for the libs to argue that Saddam had a constitutional right to kill all those babies.
The answer is......he should tell them to Pizz up a rope
Hell is too good a place for Saddam.
Over the past few months I have noticed and noted a repeated question from FR members:
To suggest that Iraq had "full throttled" support from the United States is an utter lie. It is certainly true that the USA provided satellite pictures and suchlike to prevent the Iranians from winning the Iran-Iraq War, but this does not constitute any particular love for Saddam's regime, and furthermore it is disingenuous to suggest that because Reagan may not have wanted Iran to win that war, that he supported or even winked at crimes like this. Only a liberal would make that tenuous intellectual connection. What Reagan had to deal with was a lack of good choices in the region, in an era when Iraq had close ties with the Soviet Union (as a major buyer of arms).
Reagan kept sending him chemical, biological strains and technology util he left office in 1988.
Cite and prove. If it comes from Democrat Underground, then we know where you're from.
Ivan
This was brought up yesterday evening during Brit Hume's Special report. Especially the part about the baby having been shot in the back of it's head
All these mass graves were filled by US soldiers... /DU
In other news, the headline on my Compuserve homepage.."Saddam's hernia surgery a success!"
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