From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:14:51 +0000, Phil Payne wrote:
>
> Why has Shrub's administration gone very, very quiet on this subject?
> If it were even remotely true they'd be showing pictures of mounds of
> skulls like they did for Pol Pot to justify the invasion.  But they
> can't, because there aren't any "mass graves" except for the Iran war
> dead.
>
> http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/27000.htm is from December 2003 at the
> height of the misinformation campaign.  Where are the skulls with bullet
> holes?
>
> Now try the Red Cross map at
> http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/missing_map and put your
> cursor on Iraq.  See what it says?  "Hundreds of families".  NOT
> "hundreds of thousands of families".
>
> It's absolutely usual for the bodies of executed Muslims to be returned
> to their families - the Koran requires it, and it was even done for
> Saddam. There are no "hundreds of thousands of missing" in Iraq.
>
> You've been duped.  Suckered.  IT NEVER HAPPENED!

Ahhh, Phil's Iraqi fantasy land with Saddam as the ruler again.  I know all
such right-wing organizations like Human Rights Watch quote large numbers
of disappeared, but not in Phil's world.  They have all been duped.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/07/18/iraq12965.htm

It is difficult to contemplate, after the many horrors of the last century,
that a government could get away with murdering a quarter of a million
people. A quarter of a million Iraqis taken from their homes, driven to
remote sites, and executed. A quarter of a million Iraqis who simply �
�disappeared,� � without even the courtesy of notice to their families, let
alone a trial and judgment. An average of 10,000 people a year for the
two-and-a-half decades of the dictator's rule. That unthinkable tally is
Saddam Hussein's legacy.


George

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