Got to give the MSM points for persistence. Just a few days ago we got a hearty laugh out of the report about ditch diggers at Iraq’s largest cemetery. Seems like the dramatic drop in violence was bad for business.
Now, we have yet another story that twists itself into a pretzel trying to bring “context” to the situation on the ground. Yes, the violence is plummeting, but there are still “victims” like the now helpless cab drivers that used to idle their cabs outside the morgues.
Taxi driver Ahmed Khalil Baqir used to station himself outside Baghdad’s main morgue, waiting for grieving families who went there to claim their relatives’ dead bodies.
“I was totally dependent on them for my living,” Baqir, a 44-year-old father of four, said.” I never thought about picking up people in the street as I was being hired five to eight times a day by these families. But now it is a waste of time to wait there and these days I wait only for about three hours in the morning and I continue my work picking up passengers in the street.â€
When will this parade of bad news end? Oh the humanity.