In 2001, a train stacked with hundreds of suffocated bodies stops in the middle of a the Dasht-e-Leili Afghan desert. The bodies are unloaded into a mass grave.
Multiple attempts to investigate were denied, or shut down.
7 Years passed. Legal recourse was taken. Documents were obtained that indicated approximately 2000 bodies were shipped to Dasht-e-Leili.
In 2008 When investigators finally accessed the site, they found the area had been tampered with.
The bodies they recovered showed signs of suffocation.
After 7 years of blanket denial, stonewalling, and cover ups, the Bush presidency comes to an end, leaving behind scars and shadows of crimes, and this is only one instance, but it is a well documented, aggressively pursued incident of a US ordered massacre. It deserves witness.
There is little chance it will intrude on the forward looking, dismissive view of the Obama administration, but that chance is improved with every citizen made aware of this atrocity.
Daily Kos will not front page this because it isn't about domestic politics (?). Huffington Post will not feature the story because it pressures the Obama administration, which is a huge source of news scoops for them. Or perhaps it is not remarkable because it doesn't suggest much more than many dedicated liberals already believe. But does that make it less stunning? less horrifying to our sense of righteousness?
Is this old news? If so, lets call it what it is: a War Crime. Let us progress beyond the "alleged" and conclude a guilty verdict.
'No!' you say?
There are only two choices: either this deserves more scrutiny, or the dialogue should advance beyond suspicion to conventional wisdom of a massacre ordered by US government and kept hidden from the public for years.
More at AfghanMassGrave.org