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April 18, 2005

More Saddam graves (shhh, don't tell the Left)...

...this time of Kuwaitis missing since the first Gulf war:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of 41 Kuwaitis believed killed during the first Gulf War have been unearthed in southern Iraq, one of 295 mass graves containing thousands of Saddam Hussein's victims uncovered in the two years since U.S.-led forces invaded and ousted the dictator, an Iraqi official said Saturday.

The discovery in the city of Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, was another step in documenting what happened to 605 Kuwaitis who have been missing since the 1991 Gulf War. The bodies of only 190 other Kuwaitis have been identified.

Around the country, Iraq's human rights minister, Bakhtiar Amin, said some mass graves contained the remains of dozens of people, while other had thousands, with victims including Kuwaitis and minority Kurds, who were systematically killed during Saddam's rule.

"Iraq is a land of mass graves due to the genocide policy of Saddam Hussein," he said. "We have hundreds of thousands of people missing."

But, whatever, the Left has more important things to think about than Saddam's mass murdering...stuff like marketing Bush is Evil stuff.

Posted by Darleen at April 18, 2005 12:50 PM

Comments

Hm, sounds like a giant straw man Darleen. I don't think anyone, left or right, is in disagreement that Saddam was brutal. The usual logic goes, "Leftists think that Bush was wrong to go to war, therefore, they must be in favor of Saddam, therefore, they don't want to admit his atrocities, and almost all Democrats are liberals, therefore Democrats are also for Saddam..." and so on.

The link you cited is just like myriad others on both sides. So what does that have to do with Saddam? I must admit the feeding tube gas pump one made me smile involuntarily, but like most of those slogans it's meaningless toward changing minds or public opinion. The homelessness/health care are moral issues one was well said though. Moral issues seem to have everything to do with who is choosing them.

Incidentally, the war has little to do with why I dislike Bush so much.

Posted by: Erik at April 18, 2005 07:22 PM