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

[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

[jveritas]

The Liberal Media is absolutely desperate because our Victory is at hand in Iraq and if you think that they can go any lower think again.....

[pissant]

ROFLMAO. I cannot believe my eyes.

[TASMANIANRED]

Pi$$ing and moaning because there aren’t enough burials.

Bottom of the barrel.

[jveritas]

Everytime we think that they reached a bottom, they surprise us yet again....

[Disambiguator]

Every silver lining has a cloud, if you’re the DBM.

I can’t believe they published this with a straight face. This reads like Scrappleface or The Onion.

[jveritas]

I did the same when I saw the article, do these idiots realize how pathetic and stupid beyond belief they sound?!

[jveritas]

Nope :)

[Let's Roll]

Even with the warning in the title, I still thought it was satire at first. I mean they are just so friggin’ blatant. I keep forgetting that they really are just that.

Shameless to the max.

[mdittmar]

Boggles the mind don’t it.

[Huck]

Come on. This is the Onion or scrappleface, right?

[Balding_Eagle]

LOL! Unbelievable.

I hope Rush comments, ‘cuz this leaves me nearly speechless

[bajabaja]

Time for job retraining programs?

[Psycho_Bunny]

..............wow

[pissant]

Apparently not. Maybe someone was trying to be funny, I’m not sure.

[jveritas]

No person with an IQ over 80 and does not hate America and President Bush can read this and not be shocked that there are people who can actually write something pathetic beyond belief like this article.

[Huck]

lol. Yeah, the headline says it all. Man o man. I forwarded it along to James Taranto over at opinionjournal.com’s best of the web. I expect this will make it into tomorrow’s blog. too funny. pathetic and sad, but funny. this is satire as reality. amazing.

[jveritas]

I have a good feeling that Rush and other people on our side of the media will have great fun with this article.

[Recovering Hermit]

This is just absolutely sick.

Apparently anything goes when attempting to discredit our President, our Military, and our Country.

We're destroying the Iraqi gravedigger business.

We should pull out immediately, so the death toll can rise to acceptable levels.

[jazusamo]

I think I’ve seen everything now, jveritas. The enemedia has to write an article about the buriel business being slow in Iraq for a negative story.

[jveritas]

Hate, Idiocy, and Treason, a very bad combination but that is the pathetic state of liberals and their media.

[Constantine XIII]

HAHAHAHA, oh wow, they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for bad news, aren’t they?

[jveritas]

The great news here are the following:

Victory is very near and assured.

The liberal media has reached a new low that they cannot recover from.

[do the dhue]

This is Bush's fault! And so is this!!

[do the dhue]

The liberal media has reached a new low that they cannot recover from.

These people will find a way to reach lower.

[jveritas]

Even better...

[SamuraiScot]

Then in the 1990s, the daily average fell to 150 or less, Malik said. With the current war, the burials again reached 300 daily. . .

this spring, private cars and taxis with caskets lashed to their roofs arrived at a rate of 6,500 a month. Now it's 4,000 or less, he said.

Now class, who can tell me the remarkable fact that's been "buried" in this piece, so to speak. Anybody? . . . Very good, Bueller, it's the current number of burials in Najaf every month. Using my trusty calculator, that would be 4,000 burials/30 days = 133 burials per day.

Why is that a remarkable fact to suppress, class? . . . Right, because it suggests that Iraq today, during the media's "Iraq civil war," has 17 fewer Shiite deaths PER DAY in this region than the 150 who died daily during the good old days of Saddam's "orderly" Iraq during its least bloody period, the 1990s.

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?

Shhhh! It's a secret.

[jveritas]

Excellent post.

[avacado]

"The Liberal Media is absolutely desperate because our Victory is at hand in Iraq and if you think that they can go any lower think again....."

This is hilarious from the MSM! Now we are supposed to have bleeding hearts for the grave diggers of Iraq because the SURGE is putting them out of business???!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!!

[jveritas]

Yes Tom, an article like is the liberal admission that Victory is at hand and that they need go a new incredible low to come up with what they think in their delusional mind that it is bad news, where in reality we are laughing at them and their desperation.

[Grateful One]

ROFLMAO. I cannot believe my eyes................

Another two vodkas and soda will assuredly get me past this.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The Paulbearers are saddened!

[Alouette]

It’s a grave situation.

[armymarinemom]

This is a new level of pathetic. Some journalist are so far gone they can’t comprehend how ridiculous they sound.

[headsonpikes]

I can’t believe I’m posting this, but I must say that there can be absolutely no doubt that this is Bush’s fault!

[avacado]

It took me a bit to do your numbers, but you NAILED it! The death rate in Iraq now is much lower than during the “every day life” of the Saddam regime.

Thanks for running the numbers.

[avacado]

Does someone have a DU account? I would love for this article to be posted at DU with the comment: "Can you believe Bush is doing this to these hard working people!?"

The following comments would be hilarious!

[jveritas]

I am sure that the President would love to take the blame for this :)

[jveritas]

Excellent idea :)

[RichInOC]

PEACE BREAKS OUT IN IRAQ
Poor and Minorities To Suffer Most

[avacado]

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

[bray]

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

[rdl6989]

The Dhimmies are getting desparate.

[mass55th]

The gravediggers are dying to get back to work.

[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.

[jveritas]

They are already desperate to the extreme.

[Cicero]

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.

[jveritas]

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

[fedupjohn]

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

[My Favorite Headache]

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