Reply #34: This article, also published Monday, gives the lie [View All]

[Matilda]

to the statements of the U.S. military.

"In Baghdad all roads lead to the morgue. This building to the north of the city comes from the
pages of Dante.

"It reveals the unvarnished truth about this deepening conflict. The body count rises steadily:
more than 1800 mutilated corpses were trucked in from across the capital in July, a significant
increase on the June toll of almost 1600. Across the country, almost 3200 Iraqis died violent
deaths in June.

"Coping with this flood of suicide-bombing and mass-murder victims is an impossible task for morgue
staff. In the stifling summer, the police try to get out before sunrise to gather corpses from
the killers' favourite dumping spots before the boiling heat of the day."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0828-08.htm


The article was written by Paul McGeogh, a respected Australian journalist who has been in Iraq
from the beginning of the invasion, was never "embedded", and wrote the truth from the beginning
when it wasn't fashionable to do so. I'd be inclined to believe him before I'd believe any
military spokesman, and as this was published on the same day as the military release, I find it
hard to believe there's been a sudden turnaround in a matter of days.