Does Genocide Matter?

The January 2004 report by USAID on mass graves in Iraq received scant media attention. (See also this site). At that time, one of the conclusions was:

If these numbers prove accurate, they represent a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s, and the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

Now we know there are more sites still being found:

Mr Kehoe investigated mass graves in the Balkans for five years but those burials mainly involved men of fighting age and the Iraqi finds were quite different, he said.

"I've been doing grave sites for a long time, but I've never seen anything like this, women and children executed for no apparent reason," he said.

This type of news doesn't get much play these days, but how can we forget these atrocities? How can any person of feeling and compassion feel that this was the "wrong war at the wrong time?" Can anyone honestly say that we haven't done a great service by ridding the world of the regime of Saddam, the Butcher of Baghdad?