(Iraq) Three years later, the good, the bad and the ugly

[GameSnake]

"NEW YORK - A headline in a leading Arabic daily newspaper, al-Hayat, caught my attention on Wednesday, although I had seen it many times before. "New mass grave discovered in Iraq," it read."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11843652/

[iago]

"NEW YORK - A headline in a leading Arabic daily newspaper, al-Hayat, caught my attention on Wednesday, although I had seen it many times before. "New mass grave discovered in Iraq," it read."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11843652/

To continue the quote....

But as I read further, I discovered the article was talking about something rather different — that the more than 80 bodies found this week near Baghdad had been found by Iraqi boys after their soccer game was interrupted by the stench of rotting corpses. The boys stopped playing, the article said, followed the smell and saw limbs sticking out of the dirt and trash.

The headline should have been more like "New mass graves being created today," I thought. I also reflected that it came almost three years after the U.S. war began to defend against terrorism and Saddam Hussein's weapons, and to plant democracy in the Fertile Crescent.