USS Clueless - Telling the truth
     
     
 

Stardate 20030717.1403

(On Screen): You know, it's odd that no one is accusing Bush of lying about how brutal and vicious Saddam was.

Or maybe it isn't so odd, given how brutal and vicious Saddam actually was. The 101st has found another mass grave.

In the latest in a series of grisly discoveries, the U.S. military said Thursday it found another mass grave this one in northern Iraq and thought to contain the bodies of up to 400 Kurdish women and children slain by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division found the grave on the side of a dry riverbed in Hatra, 200 miles north of Baghdad. An assessment team was sent to the site.

Some 25 sets of remains all women and children have been pulled from the grave, each with a bullet hole in the skull. The military said the size of the area leads them to believe the site contains between 200 and 400 bodies.

Since the end of the Iraq war, at least 60 mass graves, some with hundreds of corpses, have been discovered. The United Nations is investigating the killing or disappearance of at least 300,000 Iraqis believed murdered during Saddam's regime.

There's at least one indisputable fact about the situation: the mass torture and summary executions in Iraq have stopped.

Update 20030720: (Much) more on this here.


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