HUGE MASS GRAVE FOUND IN IRAQ: A British reader sends the link with this comment:

BBC Radio Five Live panel discussion currently on air featuring anti-war creep whose attitude to discovery is “So what? We knew mass graves were there. This is just a propaganda attempt at post hoc justification.”

Now we know where they get the people who dig the holes.

Ordinarily I’d have excised the word “creep,” but it seems to fit here.

UPDATE: Another reader emails:

Your reader’s wrong. Such people will never, EVER be found digging the holes.

The line should be “now we know where they get the people who keep the guns on others and force them to dig the holes.”

But I guess that’s too long. And, frankly, too graphic. In fact, everything about my revised version is apalling and unconcionable except for one thing:

It’s historically true.

Indeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader John Wilson emails:

You have probably received this one hundred times by now, but Clint Eastwood said it best in “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly:”

Man With No Name: “You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”

Ah, the clarity provided by westerns. Even Italian made westerns.

That’s why people love — or hate — westerns: the clarity.