The disintegration of Iraq's health service is leaving its civilians defenceless in the continuing violence that is rocking the country, Iraqi doctors warn today.
As many as half of the civilian deaths, calculated at 655,000 since the 2003 invasion, might have been avoided if proper medical care had been provided to the victims, they say...
In March, the campaign group Medact said 18,000 physicians had left the country since 2003, an estimated 250 of those that remained had been kidnapped and, in 2005 alone, 65 killed...
2,000 The estimated number of Iraqi physicians murdered since 2003.
Friday, October 20, 2006
One More Side to the Humanitarian Disaster That Is Iraq
Methinks it's time to consider humanitarian intervention in Iraq.
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It's the kind of situation that cries out for humanitarian intervention of a nature and on a scale that only the United States can provide.
Oh, right. Never mind.
Seriously, did anyone think back in 2003 that it would get this bad? I didn't expect sweets and flowers, but I also didn't expect this.
In fact, my biggest fear was that the Cheney cabal would use Iraq as a base for invading Iran and Syria.
That's the irony, Roxtar! I was even thinking of the original "humanitarian" justification for the invasion.
O sweet, deep, suicidal irony!
We're no longer that shining city on the hill. We're that shitty neighborhood down by the abandoned mill where crack whores will do you at curbside for 20 bucks.
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