Death Factory - Note to

Death Factory - Note to the American Left, especially all you anti-Bush protesters: Read this, and then tell me you have any claim to moral superiority:

Each sheaf of notes contains a picture of a man or woman. Each and every one has been shot in the head. Their wounds are mangled and gaping. Many of them barely look human any more as the anonymous photographer chronicled their dead faces. It is a horror almost beyond words.

It is hard not to look at the black-and-white photographs -- two for each victim -- and wince. Yet each was a brother, a father or a son; or a mother, a daughter or a sister. Each had a past and hopes for a future, yet each ended here, in this dry and dusty hall of the dead. There must be at least 200 of them in the plywood coffins, roughly hammered together by a hurried carpenter. All of them are in bags, jumbled together in sad piles of remains.

The story, in the British Sunday Herald, discusses British soldiers' discovery of one of Hussein's death and torture marts, in As Zubayr. Hundreds of bodies. Evidence of torture. Most damning; detailed records of what happened.

So one of the left's most persistent tropes is "we shouldn't be fighting this war; it's killing Iraqis! If we weren't invading Iraq, innocent Iraqis wouldn't be dying!"

Iraqis like this?

In one sack a single photo lies. It is a simple ID card. On it a middle-aged man stares out. He has black hair, a long face and a drooping moustache. In life he would perhaps have looked pensive. But lying, half-covered by his own dusty remains, the man pictured within looks sad and forlorn. He looks regretful for the life stolen from him. A splotch of bloodstain on the corner of the card is reminder enough of the brutality of how all his hopes died.

I'm normally pretty dispassionate about the things I write about in this blog. Not so, now. I can barely contain the rage I feel at the idiocy of some on the American left, even some of my own neighbors.

Speculation: About 500 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died in this war so far.

Fact: Hussein's regime has killed over a million Iraqis in the past thirty years. That's 30-odd thousand a year, on average, an average of 250 a week for the entire time. That's a rate actually a tad higher than the estimate of casualties so far for the war.

And it ends now.

Lefties: explain this to me. Anyone.

I doubt any of you has the balls to try.

Posted by Mitch at April 5, 2003 09:46 PM