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Iraqi Deaths Continue, But Get Less Notice

'No one values the victims' as war winds down, mourners say

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Mar 12, 2009 10:53 AM CDT

(Newser) – Abu Ghraib, once a symbol of Saddam Hussein’s tyranny and later of the darkest hour of the US occupation of Iraq, is the latest symbol of how the nation and media now treat death there, Anthony Shadid writes in the Washington Post. 33 people died there Tuesday in a suicide explosion and the chaotic gunfire that followed, but the attack gained little attention.

Casualties got play when they symbolized America’s looming failure. Not so “when America and its Iraqi allies seem to be winning,” Shadid notes. “Hundreds of people still die every month, even as a sense of the ordinary returns.” Relatives of Tuesday’s victims expressed rage and sorrow. “No one values the victims anymore,” said one. “We won’t forget,” pledged another.

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Family members of a victim of Tuesday's suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib carry his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad yesterday. (AP Photo)

An Iraqi woman wails during the funeral of a bombing victim in Baghdad yesterday. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali)

An Iraqi man is treated after he was wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Baghdad on Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Relatives of Haidar Hashim, the Baghdadiya television station cameraman who was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, embrace in Baghdad Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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woodyTX

Mar 12, 2009 11:09 PM CDT

The huge number of Iraqi deaths is one true tragedy of this war. The consensus estimate is 655,000 people. For what ? Unfortunately as Colin Powell said back in 2003..."you break it you own it". So we broke their country apart and set this human catastrophe in motion but you don't want to hear about it clroger. Let them eat cake you say. It's attitudes like yours that drag down this great nation we live in. Do you ever sit down, pause and really think about all of this stuff ? Hopefully before you're on your deathbed.............

Guest

Mar 12, 2009 5:08 AM CDT

clroger, you f------ retard, the reason they don't report stateside deaths there is because THEY DIDN'T INVADE US. Your idiocy is just astonishing.

Guest

Mar 12, 2009 3:50 AM CDT

So remind us why we're there...?

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Iraqi Deaths Continue, But Get Less Notice