"Mass graves"

[realFedUp]

I posted this article in another thread but thought
it was worth posting on its own...these "mass graves"
are one of the last rallying cries of this administration
for the invasion of Iraq.

Read about how Poppy Bush hid the bodies in February
of 1991

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14633

Bodies? What Bodies?
By Patrick J. Sloyan, AlterNet

November 25, 2002

Leon Daniel, as did others who reported from Vietnam during the 1960s, knew about war and death. So he was puzzled by the lack of corpses at the tip of the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq on Feb. 25, 1991. Clearly there had been plenty of killing. The 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) had smashed through the defensive front-line of Saddam Hussein's army the day before, Feb. 24, the opening of the Desert Storm ground war to retake Kuwait. Daniel, representing United Press International, was part of a press pool held back from witnessing the assault on 8,000 Iraqi defenders. "They wouldn't let us see anything," said Daniel, who had seen about everything as a combat correspondent.
The artillery barrage alone was enough to cause a slaughter. A 30-minute bombardment by howitzers and multiple-launch rockets scattering thousands of tiny bomblets preceded the attack by 8,400 American soldiers riding in 3,000 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, Humvees, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles.
It wasn't until late in the afternoon of Feb. 25 that the press pool was permitted to see where the attack occurred. There were groups of Iraqi prisoners. About 2,000 had surrendered. But there were no bodies, no stench of feces that hovers on a battlefield, no blood stains, no bits of human beings. "You get a little firefight in Vietnam and the bodies would be stacked up like cordwood," Daniel said. Finally, Daniel found the Division public affairs officer, an Army major.

"Where the hell are all the bodies?" Daniel said.
"What bodies?" the officer replied.

Daniel and the rest of the world would not find out until months later why the dead had vanished. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers, some of them alive and firing their weapons from World War I-style trenches, were buried by plows mounted on Abrams main battle tanks. The Abrams flanked the trench lines so that tons of sand from the plow spoil funneled into the trenches. Just behind the tanks, actually straddling the trench line, came M2 Bradleys pumping 7.62mm machine gun bullets into the Iraqi troops.

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[caledesi]

1. The mass graves are the Kurds that Poppy sent to their death!

I get so sick of hearing about the "mass graves" I could :puke:

[realFedUp]

2. kick

coz I can.

[homelandpunk]

3. 300,000 lie same as WMD lie...both are desperate "beliefs" by those who

enjoy war from a distance. The argument these "moderates" use is the same one they used when the chickenhawks came out with the WMD lies. The argument is nothing more than a psychological brow-beating...it goes like this: "Oh, so Saddam is a real boy scout isn't he? He would never have WMD, would he?" And now: "Oh Saddam was such an angel, he would never have mass graves of 300,000, would he?" Same clap-trap, different lie. What kills me is this argument is used AFTER they employed it during the WMD bullshit, and now they want to believe more bullshit...they either have no memory of their gullibility, or just enjoy war too much, and grasp at any reason for justifying their bloodlust.
What is amazing is I am talking about a phenomenon not exclusive to freeperland only.

[kentuck]

4. They hired Superman with his x-ray vision...

to look under the ground and count the dead bodies because with mass graves there are no headstones. But Superman only came up with 299,997 bodies? Where were the other 3 that were missing? We just know for a fact that there were 300,000 in those mass graves...But, your Honor, I cannot tell a lie, I put that piece of paper at the bottom of that pile of trash...uh-huh...