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Yesterday I listened to the Senate debate on The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security bill. During the floor speeches I was subjected to the difficult ramblings of Senator Byrd as he iterated over a litany of arguments against the war in Iraq . Senator Byrd struggled to get the words out even though he has probably given this speech 100 times before. But I got the point, Bush is bad, he tricked us into going to war, there were no weapons of mass destruction and we are fighting a needless war for another country.

All great points if you are a Democrat and American failure is your strategy for regaining power.

Back in the real world however there is much more evidence being uncovered about Hussein that indicates he was anything but the benign threat the Democrats are reinventing him to be.

Documents are being uncovered that in many ways substantiate the intelligence assessments about Saddam’s activities and his intentions. Saddam Hussein was an active participant in the terrorist industry. He harbored terrorists, allowed them to set up training camps and paid families of would be suicide bombers to blow apart innocent Israelis in an intentional act of provocation against one of the United States’ closest allies. This is a very short list in a ream of crimes that should be evident to all but the most blind of partisans.

All that aside, one of the most underreported horrors being played out in Iraq was the plight of families that had to live in a constant state of terror under the menacing rule of “The Butcher of Baghdad“.

One of the most horrific pictures emerging from Iraq are the details of the 200 plus suspected mass graves that have been uncovered since we made it our mission to remove such an obvious threat from power. I have been hammering away at this fact for some time now. Centcom released another audio update that indicates just how evil this madman was.

Doctor Michael K. Trimble is the person responsible for the investigation. His team’s most important contribution to the investigation is described as follows:

I think the biggest impact that we had is that the individuals we took out of the ground show 123 individuals, they are all women and children, they were all shot in the back of the head, and the average age those individuals was 11 years of age.

This should be the response made on the Senate floor every time one of our elected legislators stands up to tell us how much better Iraq was under Saddam Hussein. I’m sick of hearing these defeatists undermine the war effort all in the name of gaining power that they can’t legitimately win. Their only path to power requires that they lie to the American people about the intentions of the honorable Saddam Hussein.

Perhaps the left is right. Maybe Hussein was simply an ex-murderer who had mended his ways. Perhaps those terrorist training camps were just a ruse to make us conservatives seem crazy. Likewise, those trips to Niger were just a convenient publicity stunt to get some Wilson couple into Who’s Who in America. Or perhaps the left was wrong and the Bush assessment was right all along.

In 2004 the BBC ran an article called Babies found in Iraqi mass grave. This should act as a reminder of who we were dealing with in Iraq. In that particular story they found a mass grave with “skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys”.

The grave was found south of Mosul and are believed to have been and created in the late 1980’s. Greg Kehoe, an American working with the IST told reporters that he believed that the grave was a killing field.

The body of one woman was found still clutching a baby. The infant had been shot in the back of the head and the woman in the face.

If anything is certain we shouldn’t be hearing speeches about how much better Iraq would be under the rule of Saddam Hussein. Politicians shouldn’t tell us that the war isn’t worth the effort and that our soldiers are dying for an ignoble cause. That is a lie told by liars who want to whitewash the truth about Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

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