Being Liberal and a Progressive in a RED STATE is not an easy thing these days. I started this blog to vent my frustrations on our lives being taken over by right wing conservatives with their propaganda machines. I have also learned an important lesson in the last year, it is that reading is the only way to get real information, you cannot depend on the news you see on TV.

"I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE"....Howard Beale (NETWORK)

Monday, May 09, 2005

The BEST JOB in Iraq ~~~ Undertaking - Coffin Making

Against a backdrop of almost daily bombings, shuddering explosions and US raids that claim the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians, the demand for coffins is so high and undertakers are burying bodies at a huge profit.

“The spiraling death rate in the country has definitely reflected positively on undertakers,” Mohammad Sakran, who owns a tomb in east Baghdad, told the London-based Al-Quds Press news agency.“The tomb is running out of space,” he added, recalling that many of the Shiite casualties who were killed in deadly clashes between US occupation forces and militias of Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr had been buried in his tomb.



full story:
Coffin Industry Booming in Iraq

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