How many people were actually found in Saddam's mass graves?

[NNN0LHI]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html

PM admits graves claim 'untrue'

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday July 18, 2004
The Observer

Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.

The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.

In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'

On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings already found in mass graves.'

[maxsolomon]

1. less than we've killed there, i'd wager

but we have "noble" intentions. of getting the remaining oil into our gas tanks & not china's.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. That's just a little more than

you'll find in one mass grave from Honduras or El Salvador.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Most people I know think we found millions of bodies in mass graves

When I ask them how many Iraqis have been killed due to Bush's invasion they have no idea.

Our media at work.

Don

[SoCalDem]

4. Don;t know how many, BUT I know who they were?

They were the Shia, who Bush1 convinced to "rise up" against saddam...but he didn't tell them that he allowed saddam to keep his gunship helicopters, and his militias in place..

I remember SEEING on tv how they were massacred as Bush 1 did NOTHING to help them.. and we wonder why there are still "hard feelings"?