Hugh Hewitt (via Lileks) quotes this from an article in the National Geographic:
“By mid-January of 2004, 270 mass graves had been reported. The Free Prisoners Society estimates that five to seven million people ‘disappeared’ in the past two decades, the majority of them Shiites.”
So in sixty years time will there be celebrations in Baghdad to commemorate Iraq’s liberation from Saddam, with doddery old octogenarians recalling those fateful days? With re-runs of Comical Ali’s rabid denials, and the toppling of the statue, and Saddam being pulled out of his spider-hole? If there are, the most significant questions will surely be: why was so much supposedly enlightened opinion in the West so vehemently against this liberation, and why did large sections of the Western media at the time portray it not merely as misguided, but as a criminal enterprise?
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