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Wolfowitz Describes Iraqi Killers as “Monsters” During Visit in Hilla

HeadlineJul 21, 2003

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz this weekend visited the Iraqi town of Hilla where mass graves have been unearthed containing over 3,000 bodies of people killed 12 years ago by Saddam Hussein.

Wolfowitz said, “Obviously, for those people, liberation didn’t come in time,” He went on to describe the killers as monsters.

Meanwhile the total number of Iraqi civilians killed during the recent invasion has now topped at least 6,000 according to the website Iraqbodycount.net.

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