I seriously have no words to express how I felt reading this. Literally sick with the injustice of it. 2 American doctors in a fucking fully-stocked hospital setting couldn’t treat three kids?
Oh, but they could fix the father’s flat tire, so it’s all fucking peachy, right?
So are they allowed to fix god-damned Nissans but not kids? No, it wasn’t life-threatening, but…jesus.
I’m sorry, don’t doctors (at least in the US) take an oath when the become doctors to provide care and comfort when they can?
Who is this “we” that you speak of? The sanctions were imposed by the U.N., not unilaterally by the U.S. Also, Saddam had been the one looting Iraqi resources for his military, and himself, to the detriment of the Iraqi people.
Of course they had no responsibility to treat the kids. But they should have treated them anyway. We’re not talking about expensive skin grafts. Clean the wounds, bandages, maybe some antibiotics and something for the pain.
If we care about the Iraqi people (and I do not think that we do), then turning away three burned children simply because we were not required to help is sending a vey bad message.
No pun intended?
And I agree. Helping them out would have cost them about a half-hour and five bucks.
I do not, however, blame the military.
I blame the doctors. From my experience, an awful lot of doctors are like this. Too many, in fact. They’re just as bad as lawyers, but manage to keep it under wraps.
Yes, they did so have a responsibility. They’re doctors, and they are required to care for people who need help. What kind men can look at suffering children and refuse to help?
I’m humiliated that those scum are wearing the uniform of my country.
Well, how could he not love Americans? We helped him change his tire.
And he, like his countrymen, has a LOT of experience at smiling big and spouting happy nonsense whenever the musclemen ruling his country decide to take a dump on him.
Yes, and I could very well be wrong, but I got the feeling that by “we”, Binarydrone meant the U.S. specifically. (And possibly, GWB in particular )
Anyway, since is the Pit, I’ll ask another question. Why is everyone apparently giving a pass to the father in question, who has two wives and fourteen children he rather obviously cannot provide adequate care for? Just because he has a different culture/religion?
His very young kids were playing in the street :eek: with fire :eek: and lighting bags of explosives :eek:
And yet, it is somehow OUR fault, however you define we/our.
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