Someone is going to dig up the mass graves Bush created in Iraq some day

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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38564

IRAQ: Mass Graves Dug to Deal With Death Toll

By Ahmed Ali*

BAQUBA, Jul 17 (IPS) - The largest morgue in Diyala province is overflowing daily. Officials told IPS they have had to dig mass graves to dispose of bodies.

More and more bodies of victims of the ongoing violence are being found every day in Baquba, capital city of the province, 50km northeast of Baghdad.

"The morgue receives an average of four or five bodies everyday," Nima Jima'a, a morgue official, told IPS. "Many more are dropped in rivers and farms -- or it is sometimes the case they are buried by their killers for other reasons. The number we record here is only a fraction of those killed."

Ambulances, now able to move again after weeks of restrictions, have been removing bodies of victims from the current fighting. But they have also found skulls and bones, evidence of other killings long ago.

Dealing with these remains is becoming difficult. Like the rest of the city, the morgue suffers from continuing lack of electricity. Over the last two weeks, two of its refrigerators have been shut down. The smell of decomposing bodies hits visitors 100 metres away.

Morgue officials told IPS that a local U.S. military commander recently ordered them to bury all bodies within three days.

"We got 30 bodies out of the refrigerator on Sunday, put a number on each, and put them in plastic bags provided by U.S. troops," morgue official Kareem al-Rubaee told IPS. "We asked families to have a look at the bodies. Then, they were buried collectively."

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1. Oh, the bodies from this invasion of Iraq

As opposed to the bodies of the soldiers who were just bulldozed over in the first Bush invasion of Iraq because the military didn't want to be burdened with POWs. In World War II, the German soldiers quickly found out that there were many things uniquely worse than death, one of those being captured by the Soviets on the Eastern Front, which lent a great deal of ferocity to the conflict in eastern Europe as the Nazi regime collapsed. Some of the Iraqis we're "liberating" seemed to have learned the same lesson, and prefer the quick death of a suicide bomb to the American occupation.