Amid the Baby Noor Hoopla Please Remember Baby Ali.....

[leftchick]

This is the reality of the US occupation of Iraq and the suffering babies....

Link to baby Ali's horrifying photo...

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=2329


Three-Month-Old Baby Ali Dies in Iraq
by Scheherezade Faramarzi
2004

Ali Mohammed Jabbar - affectionately known as Baby Ali - died of septicemia, a bacterial blood infection easily treated if more advanced medical care had been available, said Dr. Haidar Hadi of Baghdad's General Teaching Hospital for Children.

"The chance of survival would have been much, much higher if he were in a European hospital," Hadi said. "He most probably would have survived."

Baby Ali's suffering illustrated the plight of Iraq's children, who are still lacking proper medical care after more than a year of U.S. military occupation.

The hospital where Baby Ali was treated had no proper equipment to take blood and stool samples needed to pinpoint the type of diarrhea which afflicted him. Without that precision, doctors were unable to prescribe the right antibiotics for him.

"We feel so sorry to lose a patient for something considered in an ideal situation, a simple disease," Hadi said.

[roguevalley]

1. I remember them all. Everywhere. Poor angels. Makes you wonder

about us doesn't it.

[ladjf]

2. And the over 100,000 Iraqi deaths caused by American

military operations in Iraq. But, we've got Saddam in jail. It only cost ever 2,200 American lives, 100,000 Iraqis and maybe a trillion dollars so far. And Iraq is in far more chaos now than before we invaded. Where is the oil revenue that was going to finance reconstruction?