September 19, 2005

Cindy Said What?

Last week in Columbia, SC before a rollicking crowd of 50 said,

My son should be here right now. When he got back from Iraq he was supposed to come back to Fort Jackson to do some more training. He was changing his specialty, so it's really hard for me to be here. My son was an honorable man, and I know the troops are honorable and they're doing the best they can do and we honor them, but we figure the best way we can support them now is to bring them home so nobody has to die.

If Sheehan had her way U.S. troops would have never liberated Iraq. But that wouldn't have stopped people dying. In fact, without Iraq's liberation Saddam would have continued his reign of terror. Ironically, outsiders pro- and anti-war alike didn't know about Saddam's mass graves until the U.S. invasion. Here's what was found in one grave:

The victims are believed to be Kurds killed in 1987-88, their bodies bulldozed into the graves after being summarily shot dead.

One trench contains only women and children while another contains only men.

The body of one woman was found still clutching a baby. The infant had been shot in the back of the head and the woman in the face.

"The youngest foetus we have was 18 to 20 foetal weeks," said US investigating anthropologist P Willey.

"Tiny bones, femurs - thighbones the size of a matchstick."

Mr Kehoe investigated mass graves in the Balkans for five years but those burials mainly involved men of fighting age and the Iraqi finds were quite different, he said.

"I've been doing grave sites for a long time, but I've never seen anything like this, women and children executed for no apparent reason," he said.

And how about this information about a large grave near Hillah:

"About 20 percent of them were buried alive, because they had no bullet wounds, but their hands were tied and they were blindfolded," said Amer Shumri, an official from the governor's office in Hillah.

The myopic Mother Sheehan ignores these facts. That's because these facts would put hte Iraq War and President Bush in a better light. Her friends and bankroll wouldn't like that.

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