Iraq undertakers: Feeling the Pinch

[Buckeye_Nut]

Imagine that?..... a bad news sob story centered on declining deaths in Iraq?

Here we have a story about the plight of unfortunate graveyard workers falling on hard times because there are not enough dead bodies to keep them rolling in the money. This sounds like a story that American papers might publish, but they never will. (doing so would force them to expose the success of the military surge, something their commie/lib bias won't allow) Because of that, our papers will stick with "pain at the pump" sob stories.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071016/wl_mcclatchy/20071016bcusiraqcemetery_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop

Feeling the pinch at the graveyard sob story anyone??

NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq . "People want more and more money, and I am one of them, but most of the workers in this field don't talk frankly, because they wish for more coffins, to earn more and more."

Yes, I understand the author is a terrorist sympathizer, but how is McClatchy any different from most American papers who publish AP/Reuters/NPR and BBC sources that often fit the exact same mold. Ya know....they'll use terrorist sources to gleefully and knowingly publish terrorist propaganda on a daily basis, so I really see no difference between the two.

 

[stratman]

Somehow this is America's fault, you see by not having more bloodshed we're impacting their economy, us evil capitalists just won't let anyone make a decent living with our greed. I'm going to write to Billary, once elected I know she/he will curtail this unfair policy of depriving undertakers and push for a fair playing field. Once she/he institues her universal medical scheme and we start dropping like flies, well, we can hire the Iraqis to bury us.

 

[gmichael]

Every day, it seems to get harder and harder to get real news.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I look at it this way: The Iraqui undertakers had more than the usual amount of work for a while, thanks to Bush's right-wing imperialist policies, and now their good fortune is ending.

 

[jonnythan]

This article doesn't read like a "sob story" to me.

The article feels very neutral, though somewhat positive, for what is obviously very good news.

 

[stratman]

I look at it this way: The Iraqui undertakers had more than the usual amount of work for a while, thanks to Bush's right-wing imperialist policies, and now their good fortune is ending.

See I told you it's our fault.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Jeez, you think these macabre-capitalists would just follow the money. Darfur and other African ****holes have soo many bodies and so few mortuary specialists that they just dump metric tonnes of corpsified persons into mass graves (and I'm betting those mass-grave digging backhoe operators wouldn't mind joining a union).

 

[stratman]

Jeez, you think these macabre-capitalists would just follow the money. Darfur and other African ****holes have soo many bodies and so few mortuary specialists that they just dump metric tonnes of corpsified persons into mass graves (and I'm betting those mass-grave digging backhoe operators wouldn't mind joining a union).

LOL!!!!!!!!

 

[Joe Schmoe]

MGDBOU does have a certain ring to it.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

See I told you it's our fault.

A lot of things are Bush's fault. He is the worst president in US history. (Worse than even Nixon, and that is saying a lot.)

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

I dunno, Rutherfraud B. Hayes was pretty bad.

 

[Rickster71]

Clinton Leftovers

Aren't many of the things that are blamed on Bush, just 'Leftovers' from the Clinton administration?
For example: The 'First' 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Maybe if Clinton did more in his eight years, it wouldn't have been dropped in the next president's lap?(In 2001) This all could've been Al Gore's problem. Would you still be as critical?

Maybe, if in the eight years Bill Clinton was in office, he had fixed the levees around New Orleans that problem would've ended on his watch? Maybe the inept Louisiana Governor should've been more vocal 'before,' not after the fact, and made sure her state was safe.

I wonder what some of the Fanboys on this forum would've done, if all the previously mentioned, was dumped in their laps?

Being a Fanboy is never a good thing, for one loses all objectivity.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I dunno, Rutherfraud B. Hayes was pretty bad.

Not saying there haven't been other bad (or even terrible) presidents, only that Dubya is worse than any of them.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Being a Fanboy is never a good thing, for one loses all objectivity.

How did you arrive at the equation Bush bad=Clinton great? I never suggested any such thing. Certainly, Clinton was an above-average president (and any Democrat is better than every Republican), but that is not being a "fanboy".

 

[jonnythan]

any Democrat is better than every Republican... but that is not being a "fanboy".

Yes, it is.

 

[OttoMatic]

It sounds like some of you are actually for the war and pro-Bush?

Wow.

 

[gmichael]

It sounds like some of you are actually for the war and pro-Bush?

Wow.

Or maybe just anti-hypocrite.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Yes, it is.

Wrong as usual. What you quoted is simply being a Democrat. A "fanboy" would rave about how great the first president Clinton was.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

It sounds like some of you are actually for the war and pro-Bush?

Wow.

Pretty pathetic and scary to think that there are actually people like that living in this country, isn't it.

 

[Rickster71]

I posed a few questions in my post #12.
I suppose we're not going to take a stab at those?

The fact that I've asked questions that you can't answer.
Doesn't mean I like Bush, or any war.