Baghdad's shame

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/28/babies/index_np.html

Baghdad's shame

Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system.

Aug. 28, 2003 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Babies are dying in Baghdad hospitals every day because medicine and medical supplies, lying in abundance in government warehouses only miles away, are not getting where they are needed. It is hard to believe, especially because the young resident doctors who are talking about the problem in the small shabby common room at the Alwiya Children's Hospital are smiling and chuckling. snip

Children are dying of highly curable ailments, like diarrhea, in Baghdad hospitals because of Iraq's corrupt, bureaucracy-plagued, crime-ridden healthcare system -- and the failure of U.S. administrators to come up with a workable alternative more than four months after the fall of Saddam. Certainly, babies died under Saddam's rule, though the dictator blamed U.S. sanctions for medical supply shortages, and treated scenes of dead children as photo opportunities to try to shame Americans. In post-Saddam Iraq, though, the delivery system, at least, is far worse. And just as the U.S. is being blamed for failing to plan adequately for postwar chaos on other fronts -- from restoring power to keeping order -- a growing chorus is outraged about the medical crisis in Baghdad.

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[Karenina]

1. If they survive they just develop into

TERRISTS!!! Let 'em all die and G-d will sort 'em out! Bringumon! America got high and mighty mojo firepower. Better they die young, eh?
You like the sight of blood, sonny?