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Iraq war crimes

A complex Question: WAS THE WAR AGAINST SADDAM'S REGIME JUSTIFIED?

A simple Answer: Babies Found in Iraqi Mass Grave 
                           (BBC News)

A mass grave being excavated in a north Iraqi village has yielded evidence that Iraqi forces executed women and children under Saddam Hussein.

U.S.-led investigators have located nine trenches in Hatra containing hundreds of bodies believed to be Kurds killed during the repression of the 1980s.

The skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys are being unearthed, the investigators said.

One trench contains only women and children, while another contains only men