Iraqi hospital official: "Would you please ask Obama to postpone the withdrawal?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042401100_2.html?hpid=topnews%3Cbr%3E

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A senior hospital official said at least 75 bodies had arrived at the morgue. The death toll, he estimated, could reach 100 because many bodies were dismembered. The official asked that his name not be published, but he displayed a badge and escorted a reporter into the overflow morgue and the hospital where dozens of wounded were waiting for treatment.

Teary residents peeked inside the dark, foul-smelling trailer where bodies lay on stretchers.

"If you can't find the head, look at the clothes," one man suggested to a stranger trying to identify the dead.

On a table by the entrance, morgue workers wearing black rubber gloves piled severed heads, arms and feet in plastic bags.

"Let the universe see with its own eyes that without America, Iraq's security forces cannot achieve security," the hospital official said. "Would you please ask Obama to postpone the withdrawal?"