April 15, 2005
IF ONLY WE'D GIVEN SANCTIONS MORE TIME...:
Widespread mass graves unearthed in Iraq's south (Robert F. Worth, 4/15/05, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE)
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.Investigators also have found the remains of 58 Kuwaitis spread across several sites, including what appears to be a family of two adults and five children who were crushed by a tank, said Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's interim human rights minister. At least 605 Kuwaitis disappeared at the time of the Persian Gulf War, and before the latest graves were discovered, fewer than 200 had been accounted for, he added.
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The mass graves, discovered during the past three months, have not been dug up because of the risks posed by the continuing insurgency and the lack of qualified forensic workers, Amin said. But initial excavations have substantiated the accounts of witnesses to a number of massacres.If the estimated body counts prove correct, the graves would be among the largest in the grim tally of mass killings that have gradually come to light since the fall of Hussein's government two years ago. At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the U.S.-led invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.
Odd how unfazed the human rights Left is by all these finds. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 15, 2005 10:24 AM
The only way those graves would have fit their agenda was to complain that GHWB didn't do enough to topple Saddam in 1991, and that's why the graves were there. But few on the human rights left made that point, because they would have to conceed Bush 41 was right to invade Iraq in the first place.
Posted by: John at April 15, 2005 11:05 AMOne woman prevented from having an abortion is a tragedy, 5,000 dead Iraqis in a grave is a statistic.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 15, 2005 6:49 PMcompared to the butcher's bill on the left, saddam is a piker in the death sweepstakes.
Posted by: cjm at April 15, 2005 6:59 PMSaddam killed more than one million Iranians in his insane 1980's war.
Perhaps the Left would notice if the remains were dumped on Tereza's lawn. But she would probably just fly to France.
However, some skulls on Capitol Hill might make an impression. Nothing short of that will do it.
Posted by: jim hamlen at April 15, 2005 11:52 PM