our troops still invading and destroying Iraqi hospitals - war crimes

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/12E0AF10-A62F-4FB9-AB64-A6FA44131300.htm


Iraqi doctor: US troops storm hospital


Dr Ahmad Ibrahim, the assistant director of the city's paediatric hospital, told Aljazeera on Saturday that the soldiers entered the hospital on Friday after an explosion on Ramadi's main road.

The soldiers ordered medical staff and patients to leave, he said, before destroying the hospital's doors and detaining members of staff.

Ibrahim said the forces stormed an operating theatre where a doctor was carrying out caesarean surgery.

They initially ordered the doctor to leave, he said, but when she told them the mother's life was at risk they allowed her to carry out the surgery under guard.

The assistant director also said US troops raided Ramadi and Haditha general hospitals a few days ago, and questioned whether doctors had become military targets and if the raids were aimed at closing hospitals.

He also called on every "honourable Iraqi official" to immediately take action to stop such operations.
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america gone rogue

and all we do is watch

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1. The people at DailyKos transcribed Seymour Hersh's speech

which he gave last weekend. This is part of what he had to say about what we are currently doing in Iraq:

I called a general friend of mine. After Fallujah, I called him, and he identified my number on caller ID and he answered the phone, "Welcome to Stalingrad. We took them down."

We are doing the same in Ramadi now. There are no reporters there. No coverage. No reports from military command. Marines are there.

We have no ability to get information on the resistance. We'll take them down by taking out anyone protecting them. We'll make them more afraid of us than they are of the resistance.

I don't like the term insurgency. Insurgency suggests that we won the war and have Allawi as prime minister. The real simple fact is that we are still fighting the war. We are fighting against the Baathists. They gave us Baghdad. They are fighting us at their own pace. It is frightening to think that we are in the middle of something. And they are fighting us with increasing sophistication. They watch how we react. They learn.

. . .

What we don't know about Iraq right now is that we've been bombing a lot. We are bombing exponentially. There are no journalists to report on it. There is no Iraqi air force. There are no stats on the tonnage or how much we've bombed. There are limits to what journalists can do. When the Italian journalist was shot, there was no interviews of the soldiers involved.
Bombing is easy.

The January 30 election. We had a secret army. There is an industry of private guards. We had 130,000 troops. 140,000 Iraqi troops. We have overhead coverage from our satellites. We pulled them away from the person we're supposed to be hunting in Afghanistan. And despite that, nobody knew who they were voting for. Sunnis didn't vote. The Kurds voted as many times as they could. Many women didn't vote because their husbands told them they couldn't. And now we're being told it's the new Pericles.

I spoke to two diplomats recently> They said to me, "you're 3000 miles away from everything. Europe has an angry Muslim population. We are closer to the Middle East. Muslims are a nuisance to you (U.S) while you careen about making chaos. But it is intolerable for the people there in Iraq. There is no civil society {mentions loss of water, sewage, electricity, oil, etc.}. Anyone who can has gotten out. We've made Iraq unlivable. You can't be in the streets after dark.

more . . .

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/24/225640/061

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2. Gulf War of bush the elder --

the claim was the Iraqi soldiers were invading Kuwait hospitals and toss out patients (and assorted B.S.) -- now it seems like the US is following the script of what the Iraqis were supposed to have done.

Remember it was the daughter of a Kuwait diplomat who was making up these stories -- and a P.R. firm was hired to spread the word.

Also is this going to be the model of US health care under the bush dynasty -- no doctors -- no hospitals -- you get sick -- you get shot.

In Latin America and the Caribbean American is well known for exporting arms -- anything and everything. Do you know what Cuba is know for??? Exporting doctors and health care. Every country EXCEPT US territories and UK territories have an abundance of Cuban doctors helping to meet the health needs of the Latin American and Caribbean Nations. THIS isn't reported in the US news -- but it is well know in this region.