In Iraq people now talk of "Bush’s mass graves."

[sabra]

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2008-04-14/kurd.htm

The phrase “mass graves” in Iraq has long been associated with former leader Saddam Hussein. But not anymore. In U.S.-administered and occupied Iraq people now talk of ‘Bush’s mass graves.’

More and more mass graves are being unearthed with hundreds of bodies, most of them unidentified, but all of them dug in the post-Saddam era which Iraqis associate with President Bush and his occupation troops.

One such mass grave is the one discovered recently in Mahmodiya which, according to Hareth al-Ubaidi, a human rights activist and Member of Parliament holds “hundreds of bodies and bears all the marks of Saddam Hussein but does not belong to him.”

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No one says the U.S. itself dug mass graves in Iraq. U.S. occupation troops are notorious for their being trigger-happy bands and the worst jailors the world has ever known. There is enough evidence of this in Iraq.

But many Iraqis today have none to blame for the atrocities unfolding in their country but the United States and specifically its current President.

At least 80 bodies of men, women, children and elderly have been recovered from the mass grave in Mahmodiya, among them a girl still in her wedding gown, said Ubaidi.

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[Purveyor]

1. Thanks for posting. Let us kick this story up to the 'greatest thread' status. eom

[raccoon]

4. Done. K&R. nt

[gratuitous]

2. Whaaaa?

"U.S. occupation troops are notorious for their being trigger-happy bands and the worst jailors the world has ever known"? I don't see that on the teevee or on all those ads that are run on ESPN, Comedy Central, and Spike. Is this the "extraordinary" that our young people are being trained and sent out to do?

[peekaloo]

3. mass graves, rape rooms and torture

motherfucker hit the trifecta again.

[sabra]

5. Bush: "Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men..."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080319-2.html

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Today, in light of the challenges we have faced in Iraq, some look back and call this period the easy part of the war. Yet there was nothing easy about it. The liberation of Iraq took incredible skill and amazing courage. And the speed, precision and brilliant execution of the campaign will be studied by military historians for years to come.

What our troops found in Iraq following Saddam's removal was horrifying. They uncovered children's prisons, and torture chambers, and rape rooms where Iraqi women were violated in front of their families. They found videos showing regime thugs mutilating Iraqis deemed disloyal to Saddam. And across the Iraqi countryside they uncovered mass graves of thousands executed by the regime.

Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men, women and children. Because we acted, Saddam's torture chambers and rape rooms and children's prisons have been closed for good. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer invading its neighbors or attacking them with chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer paying the families of suicide bombers in the Holy Land. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer shooting at American and British aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones and defying the will of the United Nations. Because we acted, the world is better and United States of America is safer. (Applause.)

[Voice for Peace]

6. omigod

"And the speed, precision and brilliant execution of the campaign will be studied by military historians for years to come."

I'm sure they'll study it.. but not exactly the way bush imagined

[jimshoes]

7. Which one does not belong...

Attila the Hun, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, George bush,?

A:












Nice company george, congrats.

[fed-up]

8. k/r nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Some legacy, eh georgie?

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