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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 01:21 PM
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"The injuries are horrific," he said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001804036_hospital30.html

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Since the largest U.S. Army hospital in Iraq opened its doors on April 10, nearly all U.S. casualties have passed through its first-floor emergency room. Some come already dead. Some arrive with one arm instead of two, a shattered leg or a face wiped away by an explosion.

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About 70 percent of the hospital's patients are wounded soldiers; the rest are Iraqi civilians and prisoners, along with a small number of U.S. civilian contractors, said Maj. Mark White, director of patient administration.

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"The injuries are horrific," he said. "They are beyond anything that you see in a textbook, and they are the worst that I have ever seen."

Twenty-four hours in the hospital's emergency room with soldiers stripped of their uniforms and gritty exteriors revealed the physical and emotional toll.
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.........."a face wiped away by an explosion"...............


..........."the physical and emotional toll"...............

look what we are doing to our children
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 01:33 PM
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1. Yes, but Saddam was a madman!
He was terrorizing his own people!

We can't just cut and run, now, can we?

How could our soldiers feel as though they were leaving 'with honor'?



Honestly... are we really this willing to fight our own evolution?
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 02:00 PM
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2. Too sad and we did not have to have this war
Send it on to your congress man if he voted to let Bush take us into war.
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