The New York Times reports that more mass graves have been found in Iraq:

Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein’s government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies, Iraqi officials say.

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If the estimated body counts prove correct, the new graves would be among the largest in the grim tally of mass killings that have gradually come to light since the fall of Mr. Hussein’s government two years ago. At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the American invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.

Armies of the self-proclaimed compassionate marched across the world to keep Saddam Hussein in power. A reckless cowboy, a dangerous warmonger, a stupid, conniving cretin stood up to the masses. If not for the cowboy, the compassionate would have succeeded and murders would still be rolling corpses into those mass graves. Now all that’s left of the thugs is weakening insurgency and an aging leadership rotting in jail. The Iraqis defied threats of death to go out and vote, and by doing so, they validated the actions of that idiotic cowboy and gave the finger, tipped in purple, to the compassionate whose actions would have consigned them to a lifetime of oppression. Peace might come to the world much faster if only there were more of those cowboy criminals.