Saturday, April 30, 2005

And you wonder why a) "Never Again" always happens again and b) the media has no interest in educating Americans about what Iraq was like before the U.S. led invasion.

Hundreds of dead women and children, executed in a hail of rifle fire by Saddam Hussein were found buried in a mass grave which had beeen hidden for 15 years. But a bride with cold feet gets top billing. Shouldn't that be under "Oddly Enough" and the crime against humanity placed at the top? (By the way more than 300 mass graves have been found since the invasion.)

MSNBC.com's headlines this morning were as follows (font approximate).

Pre-wedding jitters
Ga. woman who vanished before wedding found alive, fabricated kidnap tale, police say. • STORY
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MORE TOP STORIES
• Festive Vietnam marks war’s end | • Slide show
• U.S. warns of possible N. Korea nuclear test
• Four GIs killed in Iraq | • WP: Mass grave found

At the NY Times, there isn't even an article on the subject, just a link in it's RSS feed from the AP and Reuters. No sense wasting valuable resources I guess.

In the Argentine daily Clarin's website, it's front page news with a picture.



More photos with descriptions here, here and here.

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