Blogging the gap between war crimes and sketch comedy? Not so into it.

For the record, many of us immediately thought of that old Kids in the Hall bit when we saw this AP headline, and many of us briefly considered blogging about it...


But only Wonkette actually did so. Perhaps that's becuase the rest of us thought it a little inappropriate to poke fun at this:

Abdullah, 29, gave the chilling account during the trial of Hussein and six others for their roles in Operation Anfal, the 1987-88 campaign to suppress a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq during the final stages of the war with Iran...

"At night, I heard the screaming of women and children," he said. He said he fled to neighboring Iran, but that his mother and two sisters went missing. Years later, their ID cards were found in a mass grave near Hatra, he said.