War makes strange bedfellows, on both sides

One of the great ironies of the anti-war movement as applied to Iraq is that the man these noble souls effectively supported, Saddam Hussein, is one of the most evil men of the last 100 years. We already knew he had gassed the Kurds, and now comes a Gallup Survey showing he may have executed up to 61,000 Baghdadis as well. But those numbers are a mere suggestion, since they're only Baghdad, not the whole country:

The U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq has said that at least 300,000 people are buried in mass graves in Iraq. Human rights officials put the number closer to 500,000, and some Iraqi political parties estimate more than 1 million were executed.

So estimates range from a horrifying million to a merely shocking 300,000. I realize that the peace groups can make cogent, if not convincing, arguments that opposing the war is not the same as supporting Hussein. And I suppose that, in a college symposium/legal brief kind of way, that may be right.

But tell that to the families of the only 300,00 killed by Hussein.
- posted by Anonymous @ 8:55 PM