bloody reminder

as the trials of saddam continue (reuters timeline)--with or without clean underwear, the discovery of another mass grave remind of his crimes (found via lucianne.com). however the numbers and scope boggle the mind. USAID documents the Legacy of Terror

"We've already discovered just so far the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair on November 20 in London. The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. "Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been 'disappeared' by the Iraqi government over the past two decades," said the group in a statement in May. "Many of these 'disappeared' are those whose remains are now being unearthed in mass graves all over Iraq."

meanwhile pbs frontline travels saddam's road to hell

the humanitarian crisis alone poses sufficient grounds to remove saddam

¶ - nitish @ 9:33 AM