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Mass Graves Day

How did you spend it?  Not really your concern if you’re an American, of course.  Those were all someone else’s relatives stacked up in those pits, and thanks to Saddam, kite-flying Sunnis and Shiites were living prosperously and in harmony with each other.*  

Gateway notes:

The US didn’t find 300,000 warheads.
The US found the remains of 300,000 Iraqis in mass graves instead.

Those 300,000-plus doesn’t count as WMD, not if you do it one bullet at a time.  The several hundred chemical warheads they did find don’t really count, because we’d rather they not. Ditto the scientists who said Saddam’s people told them to be ready for Saddam’s wither away.  Anfal, well, Cheney ordered that.

Since then, al-Qaeda terrorists and Shiite death squads working on George Bush’s behalf have killed, heck, it’s gotta be a million now, by the most rigorous Lancet deathtimation standards.  Or 50,000.  Something like that.

*Idyllic scenario marred somewhat by evil U.S.-enforced sanctions regime that murdered all of Iraq’s children, including thousands who had already been killed by DU. Except sanctions regime kept Saddam in a box, Bush lied, people … darn, I’m confused now. Sanctions, good, bad?  Saddam, Bush … this is hard!

Topics: Iraq

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:54 am on Thursday, May 17, 2007

12 Responses to “Mass Graves Day”

1. corndog Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am

   Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
   Sunday July 18, 2004
   The Observer

   Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that ‘400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves’ is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
   The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq’s mass graves…Of 270 suspected grave sites identified in the last year, 55 have now been examined, revealing, according to the best estimates that The Observer has been able to obtain, around 5,000 bodies…”

2. The Thunder Run Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am

   Web Reconnaissance for 05/17/2007

   A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

   Only 5,000 dead? OK, so suppose we apply that number to all 270 gravesites, that’s somewhere between 25,000 - 30,000 dead in mass graves. That we know about. So, what are we worried about then? What’s a few thousand dead Kurds and Shi’ites, when Saddam kept stability?

4. corndog Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   “What’s a few thousand dead Kurds and Shi’ites, when Saddam kept stability?”

   Well, for one thing, Becky, it’s a lot fewer than what we’ve brought just since 2003 in our export of American values.

5. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

   Rebecca! Please!! You can hardly expcet corndog to agree with you, since he has has suffered all these years under the oppression of the International Bush Empire, and is a victim. Why, that’s torture!!!!!! Almost as bad as being fed gourmet meals 3 times a day at Gitmo.

   Minor problems like mass graves all over Iraq are just not his concern.

   Besides, the contents of those mass graves (5,000 or 300,000, it matters not) were pre-Emperor Chimpy and his awful Unilateralism, and are far far far FAR outweighed by the American casualties resulting from the illegal occupation of Iraq, all thanks to Emperor Chimpy’s New World Order. They’re all brown people, doncha know?

6. RebeccaH Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

   I dunno, Jeff. I guess it’s too much to expect Cornhole to resist that slavish devotion to Islamocommie propaganda.

7. corndog Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

   Becky and Jeffy,

   If you want to present an actual argument, I’ll respond. Otherwise, it sounds like you acknowledge that the six-figure mass grave thing was a work of fiction.

8. RebeccaH Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

   Human rights organizations estimate that more than 300,000 people, mainly Kurds and Shiite Muslims, were killed and buried in mass graves before Saddam was overthrown by U.S. forces in 2003.

   It’s unfortunate that Associated Press doesn’t name these human rights organizations, but if they, of all people, are willing to report it, and the Iraqis themselves commemorate it, then who am I to question it? Especially since the article you cite is three years old.

9. El Cid Says:
   May 17th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

   corny, has given everyone a clue….

   If you want to present an actual argument, I’ll respond.

   In other words, if one stops presenting “an actual argument”, corny will disappear.

   Christ, it’s Christmas, in May?…WOW!

10. Dave Surls Says:
    May 17th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/

    Systematic mass murder carried out by corndog’s Baath buddies in Iraq.

    Just one of several purges by the Baathists.

11. TBinSTL Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 3:59 am

    I spent the day assisting deserving vets in the pursuit of self-medication(I tend bar) at American Legion Post 103. I like to think of it as a tribute by fifths.

12. TBinSTL Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 4:01 am

    It’s ok guys, Corny is on my list………with a line through his name!!!

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