This diary kind of dovetails with
Galiel's truly disturbing diary on the US military in Falluja's proposed "Arbeit Macht Frei!" program.
Naomi Klein over at the Guardian newspaper in the UK accused the US military of "openly eliminating anyone - doctors, clerics, journalists - who dares to count the bodies", not surprisingly she was roundly attacked from all quarters, particularily from the US Embassy Acting Ambassador to the UK, not usually the type of dirty business US Ambassadors get into, eh?
Well naturally Ms Klein took this attack very seriously, and decided to hit back at her critics.
UPDATE 7.45 pm EST: kossack justme directed me to a first-hand account that highlights the situation in the hospitals, translated from it's original russian.
Expansion after the jump...
Here is her reply with the proof our Embassy demanded.
After reading what she reports, and after experiencing a terrifying chill reading Galiel's diary, I really have the worst feeling about the days ahead for both the people of Iraq, and ourselves, particularily our soldiers on the ground.
There are already a trickle of deserters, who have been forever damaged by what they've had to do or witness in Iraq.
I fear that trickle will become a scream.
And the scream will be a spoiled nations collective ID sadistically running rampant over bloody sand in a country hidden behind closed doors.
This is from the russian eyewitness mentioned above:
It is a general crisis with water. There are simply no clean sources. The local residents fetch water from the river, muddy, gray and dead. You can buy anything for water now. The sewage system is broken, the water supply is broken, and electricity is absent in the city.
I am afraid to imagine what will happen in two weeks. Hepatitis will take toll of thousands. They say already that people at the outskirts are in fever with the symptoms of typhus. But one cannot verify it. They prohibited moving in the city.
Read the rest
here.