I heard another Congressman talking about the "killing fields"

[kentuck]

Referring to Iraq under Saddam Hussein. It's catching on. This was the second or third time I've heard it mentioned in those terms. Wasn't Saddam bad enough as he was? Do we really need to exaggerate to the level of the "killing fields" to make the point and to convince the people of the righteousness of the cause? How many more times will we hear this?

[OrdinaryTa]

1. Dodgy Dossier

The case has been exaggerated from the outset. The Kay Report was supposed to make Bush look good; instead it's having the opposite effect.

[realFedUp]

3. Poppy Bush's mass graves

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd06262003.html

Mass Graves and Burned Meat in Bush's New Iraq
By CHRIS FLOYD


They were digging mass graves in Iraq last week.

No, not the mass graves that George W. Bush now reflexively invokes to justify his murder of up to 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and the needless deaths of more than 200 American soldiers in the aggressive war he launched on the basis of proven lies and outright fabrications. Those mass graves, containing victims of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, were dug years ago, back when powerful American officials like Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz were pursuing "closer ties" to the Saddam regime at the signed, insistent order of another president named George Bush.

They were also being dug all over Iraq when Donald Rumsfeld was eagerly pressing Saddamite flesh as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, restoring diplomatic ties with the CIA-supported killer. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall as Rumsfeld squinted tenderly into Saddam's beady eyes and pledged to lavish the burly beloved with American money to build his war machine, American technology to fuel his internal repression, American honor to secure him credit and diplomatic backing abroad, and American military intelligence for his poison gassing of Iranian troops and missile attacks on Iranian civilians. How many thousands of innocent lives were sacrificed in that moment of explosive power-guy passion! It must have been one steamy love scene, a real bodice-ripper.

We're now told that those mass graves are bad mass graves, although they were perfectly acceptable at the time. (Then again, fashions do change, don't they? Remember when presidential deceit was an impeachable offense? When military aggression was a war crime? Ah, those silly fads of yesteryear.) But the new mass graves being dug in Iraq today--for the innocent collaterals killed during the American military sweeps last week--are good mass graves, you see, because the aged farmers, retarded teenagers, young fathers and fleeing women now being shoveled into fetid desert pits were killed by the bombs and bullets of liberation!

continued

[neebob]

2. I've noticed that as well

and I'd like to know how many we've added. Much as it bothers me to use "we" in that kind of sentence. According to an article on buzzflash.com, there's an American killing field in Afghanistan that's even bigger than the one in New York. Well, I suppose they'd have to call that a "killing bunch of airtight containers."

[Cocoa]

4. if any of the whores cares,

they can analyze the humanitarian claims in light of the fact that the U.S. supported Iraq when their worst atrocities were well known.