By the VERY SAME PEOPLE patching them up, right?
Oh, and as if it needed any further emphasis, I'm sick of the New York Times propaganda, I really am!
Yes, our occupation is such a benefit to Iraqis -- to the tune of nearly 2 million dead, 5 million refugees, and a shattered nation!
But we are helping out!!!
"Amid Sadr City Chaos, American Medics Tend to Iraq’s Wounded"
".... With little in the way of emergency services and travel hampered by blocked streets, nightly curfews and sporadic firefights, a steady trickle of Iraqis has been turning to the American soldiers here for medical care....
Providing care to Iraqi civilians and Iraqi soldiers “has been the excitement of being here so far,” said Specialist Joshua Bosley, one of the medics here....
I think I'm going to go be sick, readers.
Yup, shot up, burned up, maimed Iraqis are EXCITING!!!
More than 300 Iraqis showed up. In many cases, the care consisted of little more than a two-minute consultation and the dispensing of a packet of pills. But the residents in this impoverished warren of the Thawra district were grateful to have received that much....
Oh, how far Iraqis have fallen!
Their health care system used to be the ENVY of the Middle East!
And now, after Bush's invasion and occupation?
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!
Early morning on Thursday presented the medics with one of their hardest cases. A group of Iraqis gathered outside the seven-foot-high concrete wall of the American compound and screamed for help.
A Stryker vehicle blocking the entrance to the American base pulled back, and several Iraqi men and women rushed in with a pushcart covered by blankets. An Iraqi woman in a black abaya raised her arms imploringly to the sky and prayed for help.
The American soldiers were torn by a desire to help and fear that a suicide bomber might have set a nefarious trap. As the blankets were pulled back, however, the face of a woman emerged, her hair singed and her teeth ashen with soot.
The Americans got on the radio and asked the Iraqi Army to send an ambulance. Meanwhile, the woman was lifted onto a stretcher and taken to the medics’ Stryker.
Pfc. William A. Spencer Jr. and Sgt. Kevin Stine went to work under the light of Capt. Logan Veath’s head-mounted flashlight. Captain Veath cut the bandages while the medics started an IV.
As the medics rushed to treat the woman, trying to pull back the blankets that covered her, she struggled to cover up. The soldiers explained through an interpreter that this was no time for modesty. Some of her female relatives held their black abayas out from their bodies to create a screen against onlookers as the Americans wrapped her limbs in bandages.
This is a truly heartbreaking account of whatever happened, readers -- but positive, according to the New York Times (you know, the one who told lies to get us into this mess?)!
But there was only so much the medics could do. The woman needed care at a hospital burn clinic. After 20 minutes, two Iraqi soldiers arrived from the front line to transport her to a hospital. There was no ambulance. All they had was an armored Humvee, and it would have to do.
A Humvee door was tied open to accommodate the long stretcher. The rear cargo compartment was opened and two of the woman’s relatives climbed in. The Humvee drove into the night.
As dawn broke, a father brought in a baby, complaining that the infant had vomited. Specialist Chad Gentry checked the infant’s vital signs and assured the man that the baby would be fine.
Private Spencer, 20, said he was glad to help residents but was surprised by his tour in Sadr City.
“I did not think I would be treating too many civilians,” he said. “I thought it would be military.”
Yeah, the totals are climbing into the 800 range, or so I read!
Shame on you, AmeriKa!
Shame on you for tolerating this slaughter, and tolerating that mass-murdering war criminal who ordered this atrocity!!!
