Efforts on Iraq Mass Graves Blasted

[Pale Blue Dot]

But human rights activists say that for all the focus on the atrocities, the American response to the mass graves has been slow, disorganized and inadequate. In particular, key evidence for any possible criminal trials already has been destroyed.

"It's rather shocking, in fact, the investment ... of very, very little into this area -- not only of the mass graves but everything the mass graves represent," said Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch.

This mass grave yielded more than 3,100 bodies in May when relatives swarmed the site with shovels in a desperate search for their loved ones. More than 2,100 were identified through clothing or ID cards and taken away by families for burial.

Now, about 900 unidentified bodies have been reburied in neat rows, each grave marked with a plastic bag containing the belongings found on the body. Although understandable, experts say, the families' digging has all but destroyed any chance of accurately identifying all the victims or ever using the grave as evidence in court against those who committed the massacre.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-mass-graves,0,4921436.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Brucey]

1. When do we start

looking at the graves of all the people killed by American soldiers?

[Flying_Pig]

2. Not to mention the fact....

That Bush Sr. and Rumsfeld gave Saddam the the componets necessary to manufacture the weapons he later used to kill these people. Powell ("Yessir Boss!") knows no shame. Is there no level he won't stoop to please his master? Freakin' hypocrites!


:puke:

[Barrett808]

3. Worse than that

It was US policy to allow Saddam to put down the rebellion in 1991. It is almost certain that Saddam would have fallen, except for the US policy of "malevolent interference." The Ba'ath had lost control of fourteen of Iraq's eighteen provinces, but US policy assured the Saddam would take back control. The Elder Bush permitted Saddam's gunships to fly against the rebels; denied arms stores to them; abandoned the Kurds (again). "Our policy is to get rid of Saddam, not his regime," said director for Middle East Affairs, Richard Haas.

W's daddy is directly responsible for these killings.

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[Flying_Pig]

4. Right you are....

n/t