Of course this isn’t a problem! Everything is wonderful in Iraq and people should be grateful:
BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 — Officials overseeing Baghdad’s morgue have come under pressure not to investigate the soaring number of apparent cases of execution and torture in the country, the former U.N. human rights chief for Iraq said Tuesday.
John Pace, who left his post this month, spoke as Iraqi and U.S. officials offered widely varying numbers for the toll so far in the explosion of sectarian violence that followed last Wednesday’s bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra. [...]
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari said Tuesday that the death toll provided to The Washington Post by morgue workers — more than 1,300 dead since last Wednesday — was “inaccurate and exaggerated.” Jafari said the toll was 379. Gen. Ali Shamarri of the Interior Ministry’s statistics department put the toll at 1,077.
