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[gae]

'Lacking so many things,' Iraqi hospitals are barely alive
Wednesday, June 11, 2003

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Surely you don't believe that nothing has changed in the past 17 months?

[travelinman]

Originally posted by Lew:
But if General Sherman is to be believed (sorry, Trav) since war is the worst thing imaginable, the best course is to end it as soon as possible by any means necessary.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Did you finish Gettysburg? If so, I have just finished the second book, Grant comes east. It's interesting in that Robert E. Lee is starting to have moral issues with the south's position on slavery. I think it's setting up for emancipation in the south in the next book.

If you want to borrow, let me know. You and Jen can come over for dinner.

[Piña]

Originally posted by gae:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">'Lacking so many things,' Iraqi hospitals are barely alive
Wednesday, June 11, 2003

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Surely you don't believe that nothing has changed in the past 17 months?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My point in posting the article was to show that gunslinger's information regarding our helping iraq to go from 35% to 100% fully operational hospitals was a bit misleading as an example of ways that we have benefitted iraq.

The fact that they had not only a fully functioning but envied hospital system for that part of the world before sanctions and the gulf war kind of takes the wind out of the sails of his suggesting that we are helping iraq via our invasion of thier country.

Please note that I am not saying that sanctions were wrong, just that with respect to it's infrastructure iraq was one of the best in the region before we and the UN stepped in.