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Originally Posted by American  How many died on his watch? 400,000? Nuff said. |
Lots died. How many died from Hussein's murders is the question.
When the neocons found out there was no WMDs plan B - make Hussein the Devil incarnate, was launched, and at that time there were reports bandied about of 300,000 or 400,000 Iraqis found in mass graves.
Here's an example from an April 2004 article:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reports that since Saddam was ousted 270 sites of mass graves have been reported. These contain an unknown number of Iraqis, Iranian prisoners of war, Iraqi Kurds and Kuwaiti prisoners among the long list of those Saddam tortured and killed. British Prime Minister Tony Blair puts the remains in mass graves at 400,000 so far. Mass Graves Testify To Saddam's Evil; Investigators of Iraq's killing grounds have turned up 270 mass grave sites and an estimated 400,000 victims so far, bearing witness to Saddam Hussein's depravity | Insight on the News | Find Articles at BNET
Wow, Hussein really must be a monster to murder 400,000!
Only thing is, it wasn't quite right. Blair admitted he lied. And when they started digging up graves, they didn't find 400,000, or 40,000. Last time I looked after digging all around the country, they hand't found 4000.
Good luck finding stories on it now. But the truth didn't matter, the propoganda was out and had its effect.
I just found it curious that Hussein supposedly murdered 400,000, but at his trial they could only prove 148, and even that in a kangaroo trial. 399,852 more and they'd have reached the estimate.