antidote to US triumphalism

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Red Cross: Iraq Wounded Too High to Count
Red Cross Says Number of Casualties in Baghdad Is So
High That Hospitals Have Stopped Counting

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030406_446.html>


Baghdad Surgeons Amputating Without Anesthetics

AMMAN, Jordan  — Baghdad's hard-pressed surgeons,
flooded with war-wounded, are amputating the limbs of
children and adults with too few anesthetics to block
the pain and too few antibiotics to protect the
patients, a Greek doctor newly arrived from Iraq
reported Saturday.

"They don't have drugs," Dr. Dimitrius Mognie said. "I
saw it myself. I opened the cabinets."

Mognie's account, after a full day touring hospitals
during the U.S. bombardment, was a firsthand
substantiation of a report by World Health
Organization officials here, who said Friday the Iraqi
capital was running low on anesthetics, analgesics and
surgical items. [...] 

<http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,83302,00.html>






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