Central morgue in Baghdad can’t keep up with workload.
By on Apr 15th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Central morgue in Baghdad can’t keep up with workload.
“The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS on condition of anonymity. ‘The average is probably over 85,’ said the employee on the morning of April 12, as scores of family members waited outside the building to see if their loved ones were among the dead.”
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Oh my God,
April 15th, 2006 at 8:50 pmWhat has this administration done? All for what? A profit? Control of the Middle East?
Innocent Americans killed by terrorists, aproximately 3,000
Terrorists killed by United States armed forces: unknown.
Innocent Iraqis and Afghanistanis killed by United States forces: unknown, estimated between 30,000 and 0ver 100,000.
And the “Christians” think the “Islamists” are evil.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:31 pmThese are the kinds of reports that give Bush, Cheney, and Redrummy hard-ons in the morning. Just wait till they drop a nuke, there freakin’ eyeballs will be rolling back into their heads from the war-time seratonin whiplash. They live for that shit.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:33 pmWe are writing a new chapter for: How To Make Friends And Influence People.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:36 pmWhich will be called: How To Make Terrorists Around The World
All the deaths are worth it in the end, remember Democracy is super!
April 15th, 2006 at 9:46 pm#2
You say that 3000 people were killed by terrorist, well yes. But where were those terrorists from? Who funded those terrorists? Who trained them?
And what the hell does that have to do with Iraq, Iran, and Syria?
I’m not trying to give you a hard time, I’m sure you already realize that but it needs to be clarified.
And there’s one more question: How did the terrorists destroy World Trade Center Building 7?
April 15th, 2006 at 10:01 pmJustin, (#6) you are not giving me a hard time. most of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. The United States trained and funded Osama bin Ladin. Iran, Iraq and Syria happen to be located over massive amounts of oil. As for the WTC, well, there are plenty of theories to go around.
I just wish I was in a position to stop all the killing…..
April 15th, 2006 at 10:07 pmThis reminds me of a scene in the documentary Why We Fight, when Richard Perle smugly asserts that the U.S. has liberated Iraq. The next scene shows an Iraqi who is in charge of on outdoor room which serves as a morgue. He opens the door to show the bodies which are inside of it and explains that in a ledger which he has, 90 per cent of those Iraqis who are in the morgue were civilians.
April 15th, 2006 at 10:21 pmEarth. What a planet. There are well over six billion human beings living on it. That’s the way I see things. I don’t see why we need to be a planet of nearly two hundred separate nation states. I don’t see why we feel we have to divide ourselves by arbitrary geo-political borders. I don’t see why we have to think of ourselves as “belonging†only to other people with similar skin colors. I don’t see why we have to identify ourselves by which religion we choose to follow. I don’t see why we have to divide ourselves primarily according to which of only two major political parties we support in this country, when many other democracies around the world have many more than two choices for voters. We are ALL human beings, and while I freely admit that there are a great number of problems in the world, I do not believe we can even begin to resolve them until we all recognize that we are all human beings on this planet, and we’re all in this together.
Humans have advanced a great deal throughout their existence. We have learned so much about the world around us and how it works, but there’s a great deal left to understand. Thanks to science and the continuous quest for knowledge and understanding, we have learned that many of the things we once thought were true were not. And one of the worst things that humans ever did was to let religion rule peoples’ lives. Government in the hands of religion has done more to suppress knowledge and kill people than almost any other human endeavor. Religion should NEVER be the basis for government because religion does not tolerate the quest for truth. The only truth that organized religions want you to know is what they tell you it is. So when they tell you that droughts are caused by God’s displeasure, they don’t want you even thinking about weather patterns and their possible predictability. They want you to believe that you can never understand your creator, so don’t even bother to try. Just believe what we tell you He wants. Pretty convenient for a megalomaniac, wouldn’t you say?
Not that religion hasn’t done at least some good. In as much as a religion teaches someone to treat other people the way they themselves would like to be treated, it’s perfectly fine. That’s the kind of moral code we should all live by. But when any religion tells you that those who believe differently must be killed, then the joke has gone a little too far. I have heard of no God who wants us to kill each other in His name. In fact, most of the gods that I’ve heard about want us to be nice to one another. And yet, people still use some insane interpretation of “holy words†to justify killing other people. It’s sad and disgusting, I think, to even want to be associated with such people.
No, it’s time to shed ourselves of the superstition that there are Gods up there controlling things and that we must do what we can to please them. If these Gods really were all-powerful (as many of them are supposed to be), then why do they require us to do Their bidding? Why do they need us to kill one another? Didn’t the God of Moses send the plagues into Egypt? He didn’t suddenly make every Jew turn on an Egyptian and kill him; he brought forth a disease that could select its victims (or so the story goes). If you believe in a God capable of doing that, then why would that God want you to actually kill anyone yourself? Isn’t that supposed to be His prerogative exclusively? The entire belief in such beings simply makes no logical sense whatsoever. It’s self-contradictory, and if you try to live the way centuries-old text tells you to, then you might as well sell the house and move back into the caves.
Well, I just wanted to say that if we ever hope to advance to the next level, we have to throw away the old superstitions, the old prejudices, and the old ways of thinking about ourselves, and begin to realize that we are all human beings on this planet and that we are all in it together. And nobody is born “better†than anyone else. And the ones that champion a “survival of the strongest, defeat of the weakest†philosophy are the type we can advance onward without.
And we have to stop thinking that killing people is the answer. People kill over old prejudices because they never bothered to educate themselves to the truth! Education is what will advance us as a species, not killing over centuries-old hatreds. Show me a God who wants you to kill other people just because they think differently, and I’ll show you a God who doesn’t deserve your worship. Well, how about just “show me a God� The sooner we realize that all humans have to work together to move forward, the sooner we’ll get there.
Feel free to disagree. That’s one of the principles upon which the founders of the geo-political division in which I was born believed. I just wish it could be practiced by every human being in the world. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be.
April 15th, 2006 at 10:30 pmGet our troops out of there. Stop this utter nonsense.
April 16th, 2006 at 12:07 amRemember,they told us it was going to be a long War,with flowers and candies.
…”He remembered remembering contrary things,but those were false memories,products of self-deception.”
April 16th, 2006 at 1:08 amcivil war is fun!!
/sarcasm off
April 16th, 2006 at 1:12 amWord to Wayne: If you’re going to use the word ”god”as a non entity,please use the lower case. Why write all those words,then blow it all away with poor syntax?
April 16th, 2006 at 1:23 amand the good news is 2372 american troops have died lets hope theres a lot more
April 16th, 2006 at 7:46 amAnd there’s one more question: How did the terrorists destroy World Trade Center Building 7?
They didn’t, Justin–it was Bush and Sharon. The Twin Towers were imploded, demolition-style, a Tomahawk cruise missile blew a big ol’ hole in the Pentagon, and Flight 93 was shot down by NORAD, while Bush read children’s books and Cheney cowered in his bunker, in his Darth Vader suit.
Iraq and Syria happen to be located over massive amounts of oil.
No oil under under Syria, idiot#7.
As for the WTC, well, there are plenty of theories to go around.
Yeah, and don’t let the videos of those airliners crashing into the WTC toweres/Pentagon, get in your way of the lies. All that footage was shot in a studio in Tel Aviv, under the direction of Scooter Libby and Karl Rove.
I just wish I was in a position to stop all the killing…
I just wish I were in a position to watch you on one of Al-Zarqawi’s videos. Your hero, Wes Clark, was just on Fox News. I wish I were in a position to watch him on the chopping block, right next to you.
Happy Easter, infidels…
April 16th, 2006 at 8:16 amWarhawk.
Classic rightwing hatemonger. I bet you purport to be a “Christian” too. So many rightwingers talk about how evil the Muslims are because some terrorists chop off the heads of innocent victims. Then every other day I hear or read a rightwinger cheering the death of peace activists or advocating for the head choppings of liberals and Democrats.
You folks are what ails this nation.
-GSD
April 16th, 2006 at 9:00 am#9 Wayne
April 16th, 2006 at 10:23 amAmen.
It’s a good sermon for this religious weekend. Warhawks may criticize you for being wishful thinking and idealistic, but I share your thoughts and hopes that things could be so much better if people were interested in the betterment of mankind rather than selfish interests of individual people or nations.
Wayne
Here is my take on it:
We need a single world government, with a single secular bill of rights which all people must subscribe to. I feel that we need to move onto a single world currency, because frankly the multiple currencies we have at the moment only complicate world trade. We need freedom of movement of capital, and to define labour as capital, as well as a single world-wide living minimum wage.
We need to get rid of this idea of people belonging to other nations as being sub-humans, which face it is all that nationalism really is, and move towards accepting our shared humanity, but we also need to lose our tolerance for things which we honestly think are are wrong. We need to lose our cultures, and start understanding the stories which made our cultures what they are. Those stories have value not in the culture they put across, but in the pure quality they have as stories, a story doesn’t last a few hundred years of word of mouth retelling without being bloody good.
We need to standardise our professional qualifications, to the point where a lawyer in America can practice law in Australia, and such that a matric in Zimbabwe means as much as a matric in Japan.
We need local government in much the same way current national governments devolve down to the municipal level, because not every area has the same governmental needs. We need that local government however, to have to answer to the international government, thus adding a new layer of checks and balances to avoid tin-pot dictators taking over Banana Republics.
We need all of this, but we also need that government to form willingly. We need internationalism to come naturally, not at the barrel of a gun or the threat of a nuclear war. We need to move away from the rule of the clenched fist, and towards the rule of the open hand.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:24 amSorry, I re-wrote something and messed it up == should have read “being wishful in your thinking” instead of the awkward wording. The gist is the same.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:25 am#9 – Spot on, as always, Wayne. Quite moving. I can add nothing more.
April 16th, 2006 at 2:35 pmHey warhawk, I bet you believe the WMD are in Syria, don’t you?
April 16th, 2006 at 3:10 pm#14 Why don’t you find some actual radical lefty blog and post your crap. You are as bad as the wingnuts.
April 16th, 2006 at 4:43 pmBRING THE BOYS HOME
BRING THE BOYS HOME
BRING THE BOYS HOME
BRING THE BOYS HOME
BRING THE BOYS HOME
and my god have mercy on the Neocons………….what a nightmare …..
April 16th, 2006 at 5:42 pmThe morgues may be the only public service that is currently working well under difficult conditions. Not the same as other public services like the government, power, water, oil, police and army.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:31 pmwhat a shithole has been created in Iraq.
# 24: Yep.
April 17th, 2006 at 1:22 amThank you to all who responded to my little speech before. I was trying to type it all quickly, so I may have gotten some upper/lower cases incorrect, but considering how many typos come out here, I consider it a minor problem. Certainly doesn’t take away from the gist of the message, anyway. Jane and I still have no internet access at home (soon, we hope), so I had to leave it there all day yesterday until I got into the office this morning (where our office internet was down).
Anyway, thank you for your thoughts, and may we all one day live on world where all of humanity sees itself as one people instead of dividing itself into seprate little groups.
P.S. Please, stop killing one another.
April 17th, 2006 at 2:46 pm