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As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch (Liberal Media Extreme Desperation)
McClatchy Newspapers/Yahoo ^ | October 16 2007 | Jay Price and Qasim Zein

Posted on 10/16/2007 6:04:27 PM PDT by jveritas

As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch

By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET

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……

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


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: bush; iraq; liberalmedia; victory
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To: RichInOC

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


41 posted on 10/16/2007 7:31:57 PM PDT by avacado (Republicans Destroyed Democrats' Most Cherished Institution: SLAVERY!)
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To: jveritas

The Surge has Worked and the War is Ending
You suppose these people will be protesting at the end of the Victory Parades??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


42 posted on 10/16/2007 7:34:03 PM PDT by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: jveritas

The Dhimmies are getting desparate.


43 posted on 10/16/2007 7:40:10 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Alouette

The gravediggers are dying to get back to work.


44 posted on 10/16/2007 7:45:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: bray

There will be mass hysteria of desperation among liberals when we are going to have Victory Parades in US cities starting from March of 2008.


45 posted on 10/16/2007 7:46:20 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: rdl6989

They are already desperate to the extreme.


46 posted on 10/16/2007 7:46:56 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: jveritas

Priceless. I just emailed this to my list.

Reading the article also gives you some new insights into the Religion of Peace. I don’t think that was the author’s intention, however.


47 posted on 10/16/2007 7:47:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: RichInOC

I would not be surprised if this will be a headline in the next few months.


48 posted on 10/16/2007 7:47:58 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: jveritas
There will be mass hysteria of desperation among liberals when we are going to have Victory Parades in US cities starting from March of 2008.

Want to really rub it in their face, we need to invite some of the Iraqi Armed Forces to march along side of our troops.

God could you imagine the venom of the DBM if that happened! LOL

49 posted on 10/16/2007 7:53:08 PM PDT by fedupjohn (If we try to fight the war on terror with eyes shut + ears packed with wax, innocent people will die)
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To: jveritas

I am serious when I say this but I can not believe how low the media has sunk. I am sickened by reading this.


50 posted on 10/16/2007 7:58:19 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (No One Gets To Their Heaven Without A Fight)
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To: avacado

Doesn’t this article prove then that the surge is right to save lives, so Bush was right about the surge?


51 posted on 10/16/2007 8:01:40 PM PDT by tbw2 (Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: jveritas

The Onion has competition.


52 posted on 10/16/2007 8:08:00 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: jveritas
Corrected headline:

Drive-By Media Digs Own Grave

MSM - Dinosaur Media's last words:

"We couldn't go any lower, so we started digging"

53 posted on 10/16/2007 8:08:47 PM PDT by LikeLight (When was Earth's climate NOT changing? Seriously, when? Thought so.)
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To: jveritas

[Sniff] I feel so sorry for them, [sniff] so kill more of their countrymen—it’s for their starving children!


54 posted on 10/16/2007 8:09:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: fedupjohn

We will have to line the streets w/our Fingers dipped in Purple flashing the Victory Sign!

PRay for W and Our Freedom Fighters


55 posted on 10/16/2007 8:20:26 PM PDT by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: fedupjohn

Excellent idea!


56 posted on 10/16/2007 8:24:02 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: jveritas

LOL Unbelievable.


57 posted on 10/16/2007 8:24:52 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: jveritas

Bush causes unemployment rate to skyrocket in Iraq. Skilled tradesmen thrown out of work, families can’t buy food.


58 posted on 10/16/2007 8:29:59 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. Orwell)
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To: SamuraiScot
For those of you keeping score at home, that would be 17 x 30 = 510 fewer deaths every single month than during the days of Saddam's Iraq, when I'm sure the trains would have run on time, if there had been any trains. So I guess America's war has already made a lot of Iraqis a whole lot safer, eh?

Uhm, er..., welllll, actually, ugh, the Murderous American Occupiers and their lackey allies and the Traitorous Mad-dog Infidel Collaborator Puppet Governemnet have, ummm, killed SO MANY innocent Iraqi civilians, that, uhh, that, hmmmm, that the population density has, errrr, so DECREASED, that [heh heh] it is TOO hard to find, uhh, enough, uhh people to ermmm, MAKE THEIR QUOTA!

/Baghdad Bob>


59 posted on 10/16/2007 8:30:41 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: jveritas; pissant
"Certainly, when the number of dead increases I feel happy, like all workers in the graveyard," said Basim Hameed , 30, a body washer."

The Democratic Party of the United States of America shares your joy!

60 posted on 10/16/2007 8:35:15 PM PDT by avacado (Republicans Destroyed Democrats' Most Cherished Institution: SLAVERY!)
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