Into the Hell of Baghdad
Here are a couple of on-the-ground reports from Baghdad to file alongside the administration back-thumping and high fives. From Cathy Breen, of the Iraq Peace Team: There will be no victors in this war. And from the Sydney Morning Herald’s Paul McGeough: Descent into a charnel-house hospital hell. From the latter:
The traffic to and from the morgue is pitiable. Hospital orderlies wheel the dead in and families bring makeshift coffins to take the dead out.
And when a group of foreign cameraman moves in to film the scene, the four men charged with moving the bodies in and out of the morgue react badly, angrily chasing them away.
“Why are you taking photos? For Bush?” one of them yells, waving his arms. “Tell him to go to hell.”
