Posted on 04/15/2005 11:47:43 AM PDT by abu afak
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 14 - Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein's government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies, Iraqi officials say.
The graves, discovered over the past three months, have not yet been dug up because of the risks posed by the continuing insurgency and the lack of qualified forensic workers, said Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's interim human rights minister. But initial excavations have substantiated the accounts of witnesses to a number of massacres. If the estimated body counts prove correct, the new graves would be among the largest in the grim tally of mass killings that have gradually come to light since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government two years ago. At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the American invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.
Forensic evidence from some graves will feature prominently in the trials of Mr. Hussein and the leaders of his government. The trials are to start this spring...."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But still the liberal main street press will call the American invasion and occupation of Iraq the worst thing to ever happen to the country...
How ironic. The Europeans, who righteously proclaim to be all for human rights, won't do anything against a guy who has killed over 600,000 of his own citizens (some estimates are as high as 1.5 million). Hell, they did everything they could to keep him in business.
If you kill a million people does that qualify you as weapon of mass destruction?
The press have not and will not condemn the atrocity perpetrated by communist regimes all over the world. The same for Iraq under Sadaam. Need I say more?
600,000 is a very Low estimate.
300,000 in Mass Graves alone- app ½ million in the War Saddam Started with Iran = 800,000
and that's just the 2 big items- many many more unaccounted for, Kuwait War, bodies not dug up, or avccounted for, etc etc.
.. and that wouldn't even include the Iranians .. of which 1 million died in the War he started with them.
I'm surprised they haven't "discovered" ol' Saddam hanging in his cell...
"The United States planted those bodies to make my client look bad" - Ramsey Clark.....just kidding
Ironic indeed.
Now, imagine these skeletons as living human beings in the last moments of their lives about to be slaughtered by Saddam's death squads -- men, women, and little children completely helpless and in mortal terror of their executions to come and those they were already witnessing while the world turned their backs.
Imagine also the international profiteers of the 'Oil for Food' program that kept this murderous tyrant in power while lining their own pockets with blood gold.
As long as there is an America with faithful allies, let us always have a military capability that can blow the forces of tyrants like these to Hell and gone.
We're on the right side of history. To Hell with the rest.
No.
"If you kill a million people does that qualify you as weapon of mass destruction?"
Just what I was thinking! In my mind, this is far worse than WMD's, but the dem/lib/socialists will still keep up their mantra, "But there were no WMD's! Bush's immoral war!"
".....dem/lib/socialists will still keep up their mantra, "But there were no WMD's! Bush's immoral war!"
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
Joint Resolution
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:5:./temp/~c107PpSBUS::
There are 23 "whereas's" at this link.....
The spin over at DUmmyland is that it's Bush Sr's fault.
Have they found the graves of the 500,000 children killed as a result of the Sanctions against Iraq?
No?
Where could they be???????
< /sarcasm>
Semper Fi
300,000 innocent people dead?
Sounds like a WMD to me...
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