At the time, the MSM decided to be complicit with the Bush administration and follow the unspoken rule that journalism sets aside objectivity and sides with the official agenda.
Dahr reported on the horror minus the jingoism and insistence on the Bush and neo-con rule of American exceptionalism.
We have pushed the Iraq war onto the last page and accept the notion that all is well. The economy is now supreme.
zmag.org: No Unemployment Among Iraqi Gravediggers
"I've been working here four years," a gravedigger who gave his name as Ali told IPS at the largest cemetery in Baghdad, a sprawling expanse in the Abu Ghraib section of the capital city. "In 2006 and some of 2007, we buried 40-50 people daily. This went on for one-and-a-half years.
"Twenty-five percent of these were from violence, and another 70 percent were killed by the Mehdi Army (the militia of Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr)." Only a few appeared to have died from natural causes.
"Most of the dead were never logged by anyone," Ali said, "because we didn't check death certificates, we just tried to get the bodies into the ground as quickly as possible."
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