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The report begins: "In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers."

In Najaf, Iraq, graves are dug for the unidentified, 08/18/10. (photo: Moises Saman/NYT)

For Iraqis, Victims of War Are So Much More Than Numbers

By Anthony Shadid, The New York Times

30 August 10

In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers.

In a blue plastic chair, he sat under harsh fluorescent lights and a clock that read 8:58 and 44 seconds, no longer keeping time. With deference and patience, he stared at the screen, each corpse bearing four digits and the word "majhoul," or unknown:

No. 5060 passed, with a bullet to the right temple; 5061, with a bruised and bloated face; 5062 bore a tattoo that read, "Mother, where is happiness?" The eyes of 5071 were open, as if remembering what had happened to him.

Comments

+8 # Guest 2010-08-31 00:05

What happened in Iraq was a deliberate act of revenge out of hate, because Bush # 1 did not accomplish what he set out to do. He tried to use Saddam as a patsy to wiggle his way into putting in the oil pipe line after gaining Kuwaiti's trust. It backfired because Saddam wouldn't play the game. The invasion into Iraq, that led to the murders,especia lly little children, and destruction was unnecessary. The Iraqi's, nor the world will not forget, neither will we because our troops died as well.

I still believe 9/11 was our Reichstag for the same reason. Create hate toward Arab/Muslims.

+8 # Guest 2010-08-31 05:09

Maddy you said it for most all of us. It is doubtful that Iraq or Afghanistan will ever recover from the damage done over the last 30 years. Attacks, sanctions, depleted uranium, all the "weapons of mass destruction" the U.S. has used against them, not to mention the violence of groups released as a result of loss of stability, regardless of how that stability was carried out.

There are those in the deep south of the U.S. who continue to mourn the losses of the War Between the States 150 years later, and who resent "yankees" and all things related to that war. Monuments and re-enactments commemorate that loss.

Why would anyone think the Middle East will recover and move on as if nothing happened and people did not die. The hatred and resentment will live on.

We should all be ashamed.

+4 # Guest 2010-08-31 07:23

The solution to so many of these confrontational problems in the world is not military srategies or political legislations. It is a spiritual perspective. When Bush said, "God's on our side in Iraq" and so many millions of Americans believed him ,,, when Sarah Palin said, "We're doing God's work in Iraq" and. still, so many millions of Americans believed her ... well, the definition of Divinity that persists in our culture needs to be seriously re-evaluated. It's still a war-god theology and that's the base of what needs to be changed.

+1 # Guest 2010-08-31 10:59

war-god theology for profit - and it continues in Afghanistan.

+3 # Guest 2010-08-31 10:02

The truth needs to prevail. This picture should be on every front page, every bill board, fronts of magazines. People need to 'see' the destruction and horrors we've perpetrated since they don't read... since our 'mainstream' media won't tell the truth.

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