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Empty wards in Baghdad hospital offer hope - Bad News for Dems |
2007-09-18 |
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A row of beds lies empty in the emergency ward of Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital. The morgue, which once overflowed with corpses, is barely a quarter full.![]() Last month the fall was particularly dramatic, with 70 percent fewer bodies and half the number of wounded brought in compared to July, hospital director Haqi Ismail said. "The major incidents, like explosions and car bombs, sometimes reached six or seven a day. Now it's more like one or two a week," he told Reuters. The relative calm at the Yarmouk hospital lends weight to U.S. and Iraqi government assertions that a security campaign launched around Baghdad in February has achieved results. In one emergency ward at the hospital, in a Sunni Muslim district of west Baghdad which has suffered disproportionately from sectarian conflict, just two patients were being treated. Neither showed signs of serious injury. At the hospital morgue, only two of the eight refrigerated rooms contain bodies, many of them dating to violence weeks ago. Bloodstained floors in the empty sections were the only reminder of days when the morgue was so flooded with victims of bombings and shootings that the bodies overflowed, laid out on the ground outside Continued... |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#6 WAPO reports 72,000 to 79,000 civilian deaths since 2003. Dingy Hairy Ried and Rep Kotexinich think we've killed 1 Million. |
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2007-09-18 20:02 |
#5 Perhaps so, but there have already been 1,750,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 deaths in Iraq. |
Posted by: The Democrats 2007-09-18 18:38 |
#4 Hugh Hewitt has a discussion of Iraqi casualites today. It appears that September deaths (Iraq-wide) are projecting to be a quarter what they were at their peek. Al |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-09-18 18:08 |
#3 The relative calm at the Yarmouk hospital lends weight to U.S. and Iraqi government assertions that a security campaign launched around Baghdad in February has achieved results. how civil and understated.. ~:) IÂ’ll bet the desk editors [pointed heads] were grinding their *tooth* when this was allowed to slip through.. |
Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-09-18 15:08 |
#2 ""The major incidents, like explosions and car bombs, sometimes reached six or seven a day. Now it's more like one or two a week," he told Reuters." /snark "And if this keeps up , we will have no choice but begin the painful process of downsizing our workforce." /end snark |
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-09-18 13:55 |
#1 Every silver lining has a cloud©, however - But despite the improvement in Baghdad, violence still rages in other regions of Iraq, and Sunni Islamist al Qaeda militants have promised a renewed campaign to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which started last week. But it's been pretty quiet so far, except in D.C. |
Posted by: Bobby 2007-09-18 10:02 |