This is who the left thinks should still be in power in Iraq

AFP:

Iraqi troops have gunned down mothers cradling infants and slaughtered scores of Kurdish children before bulldozing them into mass graves, a forensic expert told
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial.

In harrowing testimony, American expert Michael Trimble explained how three mass graves discovered since the March 2003 US invasion of
Iraq were filled mainly with the bullet-riddled corpses of very young children.

Of 301 corpses in the graves, 183 were Kurdish children killed during Saddam's Anfal campaign in 1988, said Trimble, who is the head of the mass graves investigation unit at the Iraqi High Tribunal

"The captives were often bound and blindfolded. The captives were led into the grave and then executed with pistols or automatic assault rifle fire. The graves were then covered by those directing the execution," Trimble said.

"In all these graves, 90 percent of the children are less than 13 years of age," he said, adding that one was a child of six to 12 months, "shot in the back of his head as his mother held him in her arms."

Describing the evidence found at one of the graves in Al-Muthanna in southern Iraq Trimble said: "It was a highly organised programme of execution."

Trimble showed slides of a child of five to six years whose legs were cut in half by a bullet. She had been dressed in little green boots embossed with the image of a small cat.

Another child of eight to 10 years had wounds on the front and back.

"It is very clear these people were twisting as they were getting shot at. There is a terror that takes over as people try to get out of the way. It's a very common human response," Trimble said.

Another girl of nine to 16 years was carrying some tea and a little glass vial of perfume when she was shot.

A pregnant woman aged between 35 to 40 years was killed by a single round which passed through her womb and killed her unborn child, he said.

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There is more. When Ted Kennedy and the left compare Bush and our military to despots like Saddam they are either willfully ignorant of the facts or they are lying. In either case they put themselves on the wrong side of this war. They have to hide from themselves brutal facts of the result of the position they take when they claim that the killing will stop if we quit fighting the despots.