See business is booming in Iraq

[DoYouEverWonder]

At least for the coffin makers.

[leftchick]

1. yep

Iraq Violence Feeds Funeral Businesses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6021030,00.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Back in 1982, Radhwan Mizaal Ali opened a tiny shop offering funeral supplies. Now he runs six shops, and business is booming.

``Whenever they beat war drums, our business flourishes more,'' Ali said as he puffed on a hookah waterpipe in one of his shops.

From coffin makers to professional mourners who weep and wail at ceremonies, a wave of killings in Baghdad is fueling a boom in the funeral industry.

Ali offers everything a grieving family needs for a proper burial: chairs for the mourners, tape recorders and speakers to transmit Quranic verses, plates for traditional foods and a generator - all rented out for about $100 a day.

[magellan]

2. Bush**'s Republicanism is the Culture of Death (nt)

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. They're like vampires

I think that's what keeps them alive.