August 4, 2006--Friday Fanaticism XLIV--Habeas Corpus
It’s Friday. It’s August and it’s still hot, so I should probably write something about the Lubovitchers since they’re always good for a few laughs.
But since some of my favorite fanatics, Rummy and his genuflecting generals, when appearing yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in full flagrant disingenuousness indicated that maybe, just maybe Iraq was on the brink of civil war, I feel the need to blog something about conditions in what they refer to as “the region.”
They and their testimony in the morning were so bad that even Hillary Clinton, finding the vision and guts, later in the afternoon called for Rumsfeld’s resignation. Or maybe some staffer had given her the latest poll numbers from Connecticut that showed poor Joe Lieberman slipping away and that if she doesn’t want to join him she had better get with the Democrat anti-war “base.”
I give you fair warning though—if you need distraction and some laughs, hit your delete button right now because what follows is pretty rough.
If you’re still with me this is from a report in the NY Times (linked below) about the Shiite-controlled central morgue in Baghdad.
You still have time to move on.
It seems that Shiite militias have staked out the morgue and when Sunnis come to claim their dead relatives they machine gun them. So for every body that is claimed there is at least another to take its place.
But the Shiite militia is not only brutal they are also good businessmen. Thus they have worked out a way for people to collect the bodies that have been exhumed from mass graves or fished out of the Tigris River. For a few hundred dollars American, they will give you a corpse to take home with you.
For those not ransomed, twice a week, a crew from Moktada al-Sadr’s organization comes to the morgue to take away the left over bodies. They pile them in a truck, as few as 70 as many as 250, and cart them away to a Shiite holy city, Najaf or Karbala, for an anonymous Shiite burial. “We take care of them,” one of al-Sadr’s men said, “Sunni, Shiite, Christian—it doesn’t matter.”
Easy for him to say.
But since some of my favorite fanatics, Rummy and his genuflecting generals, when appearing yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in full flagrant disingenuousness indicated that maybe, just maybe Iraq was on the brink of civil war, I feel the need to blog something about conditions in what they refer to as “the region.”
They and their testimony in the morning were so bad that even Hillary Clinton, finding the vision and guts, later in the afternoon called for Rumsfeld’s resignation. Or maybe some staffer had given her the latest poll numbers from Connecticut that showed poor Joe Lieberman slipping away and that if she doesn’t want to join him she had better get with the Democrat anti-war “base.”
I give you fair warning though—if you need distraction and some laughs, hit your delete button right now because what follows is pretty rough.
If you’re still with me this is from a report in the NY Times (linked below) about the Shiite-controlled central morgue in Baghdad.
You still have time to move on.
It seems that Shiite militias have staked out the morgue and when Sunnis come to claim their dead relatives they machine gun them. So for every body that is claimed there is at least another to take its place.
But the Shiite militia is not only brutal they are also good businessmen. Thus they have worked out a way for people to collect the bodies that have been exhumed from mass graves or fished out of the Tigris River. For a few hundred dollars American, they will give you a corpse to take home with you.
For those not ransomed, twice a week, a crew from Moktada al-Sadr’s organization comes to the morgue to take away the left over bodies. They pile them in a truck, as few as 70 as many as 250, and cart them away to a Shiite holy city, Najaf or Karbala, for an anonymous Shiite burial. “We take care of them,” one of al-Sadr’s men said, “Sunni, Shiite, Christian—it doesn’t matter.”
Easy for him to say.
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11:28 AM
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