Mr. Petraeus. It has been reported that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion

[NNN0LHI]

What have you been doing with all the dead bodies?

[mmonk]

1. I believe

it is around 1 million now with 4 1/2 million displaced.

[obama_girl]

2. He's probably a necrophile

or maybe a cannibal

[bryant69]

3. Yeah that makes sense

Thank you for participating.

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[NNN0LHI]

4. More like a mass murderer

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."

[bdamomma]

12. I wouldn't doubt that mass graves are being used.

isn't this sick regime we have using the "Nazi Handbook" anyway.

[Kelly Rupert]

5. I love the sensible discussion on DU. n/t

[eleny]

8. Actually, it's been illustrated how W seems to relish death

Mike Malloy observed it and discussed it on his radio program pointing out how W gets animated when talking about death in war.

I don't know about necrophilia - that only seems like an innocent stab at hyperbole to me. Lots of hyperbole here at DU, btw. But W sure does seem to get his jollies over destruction. An especially disgusting trait in a president, I'll say.

[indepat]

9. If reports of youngsters blowing up frogs have validity, should be no surprise here

[eleny]

10. Amen.

[eleny]

6. K&R

[NewJeffCT]

7. He lost them - just like those 200,000 guns lost under his nose

and those mobile biological weapons labs he supposedly found, too.

all gone with the wind.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Yes, we need to apologize to this war criminal n/t