In Baghdad, corpse on a street no longer shocks

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO049418.htm

BAGHDAD, June 10 (Reuters) - A few motorists passed by. They glanced over casually. Then looked away from the body lying on a street with fresh blood oozing from bullet wounds to the face.

The scene would shock people in most cities. But after two years of suicide bombings, shootings and kidnappings, the people of Baghdad seem numb to bloodshed that has scarred their city.

No police rushed to the scene. The body just lay face down near a pile of garbage as people went about their business in the southern district of Doura.

And even if police had shown an interest, delivering justice is a daunting task for officers who can barely defend themselves from insurgents who have killed many of their comrades.

[99Pancakes]

1. Gee

Didn't His Royal Highn-ASS King DumbDumb say things were getting better over there? Yeah, right.

[Ripley]

2. I might have to print that out and make flyers.

I'd like to post that on the windshield of every vehicle with a W sticker in my town. With a note saying, "Is this what you voted for? Is this Freedom on the March?"

I used to see articles from doctors and regular business people in Baghdad telling how awful day to day life was in even in the "nice" wealthy areas of Baghdad. I never see those stories anymore. I never see anything.

It must be worse than we can imagine.

[brokensymmetry]

3. Why, this just can't be!

In fact, on NBC news tonight I saw an upbeat story about how Marines in Afghanistan were winning hearts and minds. In Baghdad, the symphony played Beethoven to 300 invitees. So, everything must be just beautiful!

Why, oh, why, do you hate America, NNN0LHI? :sarcasm:

Seriously, I wonder why the media is broadcasting such things...

[Sabriel]

4. Was this a common sight under Hussein?

Somehow, I doubt it.

[cornermouse]

5. I'm sure this does wonders for the mental health of the Iraqi

children.

[Cocoa]

6. freedom is untidy

and smelly

[99Pancakes]

7. Are we numb to this yet?

[Cocoa]

8. we don't even know about it

it's not even on the radar screen, not even close. If anyone is concerned about Iraq, it's about the American lives and American money. Iraqi corpses doesn't register at all.

[quaoar]

9. But

we had to free the Iraqi people from Saddam's rape rooms and those machines that grind people up and we need to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here.

:patriot:

Yet another story that demonstrates that "Yee Haw" is not a foreign policy.

[Gyre]

10. Just like any good American city

about 3 years from now. B ready.

[struggle4progress]

11. kick

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. "Let Freedom Reign!"