The Iraqis take a page from the occupying forces

how terribly, horribly sad to say nothing of flat-out unethical and positively dishonest...

[A] representative of the Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, ordered that government hospitals and morgues catalogue deaths caused by bombings or clashes with insurgents, but not by execution-style shootings.

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Spokesmen for the Health Ministry and the Supreme Council -- commonly known by its initials, SCIRI -- denied that any order to alter the tabulation of deaths had been issued.

Abductions and killings of Sunni Arab men, usually by gunshots to the back of the head, have occurred with increasing frequency over the past year and are widely blamed on government-allied Shiite religious militias and death squads alleged to be operating from inside the SCIRI-dominated Interior Ministry.

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Morgue and Health Ministry officials say morgue workers were barely able to keep up with the arrival of bodies. Iraq's state-run pharmaceutical company lent the ministry "six or seven'' refrigerated trailers to handle the overflow, according to the ministry official. Bodies that went unclaimed were buried in cemeteries in Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala.

the page is taken from the very same manual that directs president bush not to attend military funerals, that disallows press coverage of the bodies of american servicemen arriving at dover afb, delaware, that keeps the u.s. from tracking the number of iraqi civilian deaths since the war began, and prevents wh officials from citing in public, until recently, the total number of american casualties due to iraq... we're supposed to be there helping the iraqis construct a sustainable democracy... what the iraqis are learning is how to construct a reasonable facsimile of the bush administration...

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