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Michael Burgess: “Imagine this doctor whose life was dedicated to saving lives, to healing, to giving life, watching in his village while…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2003
Imagine this doctor whose life was dedicated to saving lives, to healing, to giving life, watching in his village while a bus or a truck was loaded up three times a day and driven out to that site and returned empty, and this continued for a full month. And that was where they got the estimates of the numbers of perhaps in excess of 30,000 people being within that one single mass grave; and then, of course, as the gentleman knows, there are many more like that throughout the country.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing estimates of casualties in mass graves in Iraq.

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