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To: Road Walker who wrote (223010)	3/9/2005 12:23:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572154

The event of the week occurred last Wednesday and I was surprised it wasn’t covered by Western press. It’s not that big a deal, but it enraged people in Baghdad and it can also give a better picture of what has been going on with our heroic National Guard. There was an explosion on Wednesday in Baghdad and the wounded were all taken to Yarmuk Hospital, one of the larger hospitals in Baghdad. The number of wounded were around 30- most of them National Guard. In the hospital, it was chaos- patients wounded in this latest explosion, patients from other explosions and various patients from gunshot wounds, etc. The doctors were running around everywhere, trying to be in four different places at once. Apparently, there weren’t enough beds. Many of the wounded were in the hallways and outside of the rooms. The stories vary. One doctor told me that some of the National Guard began screaming at the doctors, telling them to ignore the civilians and tend to the wounds of the Guard. A nurse said that the National Guard who weren’t wounded began pulling civilians out of the beds and replacing them with wounded National Guard. The gist of it is generally the same; the doctors refused the idea of not treating civilians and preferring the National Guard over them and suddenly a fight broke out. The doctors threatened a strike if the National Guard began pulling the civilians out of beds. The National Guard decided the solution to the crisis would be the following- they’d gather up some of the doctors and nurses and beat them in front of the patients. So several doctors were rounded up and attacked by several National Guard (someone said there was liberal use of electric batons and the butts of some Klashnikovs). This what is really going on in Iraq and the bushies are doing everything they can to keep Americans in the dark. Every time I read stuff like this or hear of the killing of the Italian journalist, I think of those grinning monkeys waving their purple index fingers in the Senate. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (223010)	3/9/2005 7:51:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572154

I can’t think how it could have possibly happened that they managed to fire that many rounds at a car carrying Italian intelligence officers and a journalist (usually they save those rounds for Iraqi families in cars). If they did fire hundreds of rounds at the car the car would have probably been swiss cheese and everyone in it probably would have been killed. “The soldiers who almost killed the journalist were really, really frightened. They’ve been under lots of pressure.” But see, Iraqis are frightened and under pressure too- we don’t go around accidentally killing people. We’re expected to be very level-headed and sane in the face of chaos. If the Americans at the scene are not lying about the situation then their actions where level-headed and sane. If the car would not slow down after visual and verbal warnings and warning shots, than the Americans had reason to thin that their life was in danger. Shooting the car in that situation was standard procedure and was a reasonable action. Tim