"It is one of the results of the embargo," Dr. Ghassam Rashid Al-Baya told Newsday on May 9, 2001, at Baghdad's Ibn Al-Baladi hospital, just after a dehydrated baby named Ali Hussein died on his treatment table. "This is a crime on Iraq."

It was a scene repeated in hundreds of newspaper articles by reporters required to be escorted by minders from Saddam Hussein's Ministry of Information.

Now free to speak, the doctors at two Baghdad hospitals, including Ibn Al-Baladi, tell a very different story. Along with parents of dead children, they said in interviews this week that Hussein turned the children's deaths into propaganda, notably by forcing hospitals to save babies' corpses to have them publicly paraded.

...what I've been telling you.

Will you believe the Iraqi doctors?

I'm betting you won't.

... for something completely different.

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"Iraqi doctors usually insist they

can treat their own patients, and

only ask for medication," Jang said.

"We were going to give up and

return, but soon heard that a

surgery of a 27-year-old boy with a

brain tumor was scheduled. I told them that I had done surgeries

like that for the past 30 years and that I could help them. They

took me to the operating table, only believing half of what I

said."

After the three-hour surgery ended successfully, the Iraqi doctors

smiled and held his hand and accepted him as their "companion."

It is uncommon for foreign doctors to participate in operations

with the locals, Jang said.

Some hospitals were quite short on supplies, Jang said, because

many had been stolen. He said that the international society

should provide medical support and participate in post-war

reconstruction.

"Not merely relief supplies, but support for post-war

reconstruction is necessary," Jang said. "Considering the

situation, I thought that it was right for us to send troops to Iraq."

He commended the Iraqi doctors, saying that none left the

hospitals, even during the war. "The whole social system was

paralyzed, but I felt hope and thought that Iraq would soon

recover when I saw the doctors who were quietly fulfilling their

responsibilities."

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200305/200305080028.html

...argued anything other than the fact that Hussein was a despicable excuse for a human being I have no problem with acknowledging the likely truth contained in this article.

That Hussein was a despicable human being does not however justify the the Bush Junta's actions which is really what you are trying to do.

this is a good thing

what we did was just

and for all the right reasons