More bad news for MoveOn

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.

Doctors at the hospital, a barometer of bloodshed in the Iraqi capital, say there has been a sharp fall in victims of violence admitted during a seven-month security campaign.

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.

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Deputy Health Minister Amer Khozai said the picture from Yarmouk was reflected in figures from the main morgue in central Baghdad, where the number of bodies received had fallen from up to 180 on the worst of days to as low as 12 a day.

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This has to be really depressing news for those who called the messenger of this improvement Gen. "Betray Us." For those who said his report required the "willful suspension of disbelief" this is more crushing good news from Iraq. Willful suspension of disbelief, indeed.

It is just another hit at the credibility of the forces who are desperate to lose the war in Iraq so they can use it as an excuse to oppose the use of force in the future. They are the phony anti war activist who only oppose our side of the war.

Now the Canadians will have other options when they run out of room for their rationed health care. Then, again, with the latest Hillary care we may need the beds too.