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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] That linked article "has only found about 5000 graves" circa 2004. Hundreds [URL=http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.graves/]more [/URL] were unearthed just months later (pulled from the same Google search your linked artilce is on no less). I've seen a lot of coverage on them since then. [i]Frontline[/i]'s excelent documentaries on Iraq, and everything from the first Gulf War through today (six documentaries fo far?) had also reported on the mass graves (of Kurdish rebels we asked to "rise up" 'cause the US would have their backs). Saddam would wipe out whole Kurdish villages. ...as reported by [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR2005042901191.html]The Washington Post.[/URL] Unfortuantely, the air of deception about all the reasons going into Iraq will make many people say "it was all made up to support the war", but it was [i]not.[/i] I dont think we'll have a definitive answer as to the number of graves/victims untill long after the war is over and the UN (or the Iraqi people themselves) can add it all up- news sources like [URL=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102568,00.html]Fox News [/URL] place the number at 300,000 and the [URL=http://www.state.gov/s/wci/rm/36198.htm]U.S. State Department [/URL] backs that figure up. [URL=http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/05/14/iraq6046.htm]Human Rights Watch [/URL] does not think the U.S. has done nearly [i]enough[/i] to protect these sites -you know, sites that so many now (in their hatred for Blair/Bushco) dispute even exist. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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