U.S. Military 'Obstructing' Medical Care in Iraq

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20041214/wl_oneworld/6573995391102990676&cid=655&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD, Dec 13 (IPS) - The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say.


Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10km to the east of Fallujah, the town to which U.S. forces have laid bloody siege. Amiriyat al-Fallujah has been the source of several reported resistance attacks on U.S. forces.


The main hospital in Amiriyat al-Fallujah was raided twice recently by U.S. soldiers and members of the Iraqi National Guard, doctors say. The first time was November 29 at 5:40am, and the second time was the following day, said a doctor at the hospital who did not want to give his real name for fear of U.S. reprisals.


In the first raid about 150 U.S. soldiers and at least 40 members of the Iraqi National Guard stormed the small hospital, he said.


They were yelling loudly at everyone, both doctors and patients alike, the young doctor said. They divided into groups and were all over the hospital. They broke the gates outside, they broke the doors of the garage, and they raided our supply room where our food and supplies are. They broke all the interior doors of the hospital, as well as every exterior door.

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[KingChicken]

1. Appalling tactics, point the finger at Rumsfeld

This is neocon warfare, fast, flexible, and deadly (for everyone else). We allow massive civillian casualties to save a few of our guys.

Agressive taticts won't end this thing, all it will do is get alot of people killed, the people lose out in the end...

[struggle4progress]

2. kick for war crimes

:kick:

[teryang]

3. Disgraceful conduct by our military

I really can't understand how they can behave this way.

<Targeting hospitals or ambulances is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which strictly forbids attacks on emergency vehicles and the impeding of medical operations during war. >

Doctors and their staff are "thought leaders." Because we have systematically mistreated the medical community in Iraq, we don't have a prayer of succeeding there.

Of course, this is just a symptom of a much broader problem. We have a brutal leadership group, which adheres to a philosophy that foreignors have no rights, that systematic lying is a viable political tactic, that might makes right, that belligerence and war are a viable foreign policy, that there is no such thing as international law, and that citizens have no say in policy.

[leftchick]

4. I can't imagine how these soldiers live with themselves...

it is a flagrant war crime and I hope they are held accountable.

[saigon68]

5. Not Really CERTAIN TRAILER TRASH TROOPS

LOVE KICKING A LITTLE RAG HEAD ASS. And killing a few Sand Niggers

(The term white troops gave the Iraqis in desert storm I)