Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Bush's Gruesome Nightmare in Iraq; even hospital patients aren't safe

Back to the GOP false choice:

Invasion and this godawful mess or Saddam in power.

If I were in Iraq, I think I might have preferred to wait for Saddam to die.

WP: Militias target Iraqi hospitals - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com:

BAGHDAD - In a city with few real refuges from sectarian violence -- not government offices, not military bases, not even mosques -- one place always emerged as a safe haven: hospitals.

So Mounthir Abbas Saud, whose right arm and jaw were ripped off when a car bomb exploded six months ago, must have thought the worst was over when he arrived at Ibn al-Nafis Hospital, a major medical center here.

Instead, it had just begun. A few days into his recovery at the facility, armed Shiite Muslim militiamen dragged the 43-year-old Sunni mason down the hallway floor, snapping intravenous needles and a breathing tube out of his body, and later riddled his body with bullets, family members said.

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