Distgusting thing about our wonderful 'allies'

Okay I haven't followed the war really really close like some of you, however, I think what I'm about to say is still valid.
Only 7 of the 20-something (can't remember) theaters in bagdad hospitals work. Okay, I can see how that wouldnt be easy to fix in wartime, BUT
I hear docters are resorting to giving headache tablets to patients as they are out of morphine.

YET some fuckin missle (dunno what it is, perhaps all the eger war transpotters can tell me) that the US are using to bomb the shit outta the place is a cool $1 mill a peice. Other missles cost how many hundreds of thousands? Bush has had approval for, um, was it 75 billion (so many billion anyway) to be spent on the war effort.

Is there any fuckin money left for medical aid of all the people they shoot and blow up?

yes smiley. once the americans have finished blowing everybody up there will be plenty of money for drugs and stuff.
thank god for america

yeah - liberation...

More like "walking in and fucking shit up"....

LOL cavallo - just seen the link on your profile! HAHA.

meanwhile, here's an article header from salon i don't dare print in full (eheh)

The last place we liberated

The White House calls Afghanistan a success story. But the failure to commit needed resources has left it a chaotic, increasingly dangerous country where violent warlords run amok. Are we going to repeat our mistake in Iraq?

if you want i can email it to yer.

Aren't the aid agencies pulling out of Afganistan due to the Taliban coming back and executing the Western aid tpes

Smiley, so what is your point?

Medical supplies are a lot cheaper than bombs and planes. This doesn't mean they are skimping on the humanitarian funds to pay for the military stuff, the reality is that if you want to help then you need both! A mountain of humanitarian aid and medical supplies is no good if you can’t distribute it to where it is needed.

this is the US state department's recently issued travel advisory about afghanistan. wonder what the iraq one will read like in 6 months time...

http://travel.state.gov/afghanistan_warning.html

quote:

Travel in all areas of Afghanistan, including the capital Kabul, is unsafe due to military operations, landmines, banditry, armed rivalry among political and tribal groups, and the possibility of terrorist attacks, including attacks using vehicular or other bombs.

I think the least the US could have done was to have some supllies they could pass on to the hospitals being the first people to get there. Rather than having all the humanitarian aid mostly still sitting in Kuwait waiting for military escorts.

It would not have been to hard to find out what the iraqi hospitals needed and get the supplies there very quickly. Hopefully its a matter of a day or two.

and with all those helicoptors they should be able to get the stocked quickly as.....

The US are primarily concerned with regime change and bombing the crap out of Baghdad. By the time they make an effort to help the 1000's of civilians that they will have wounded and killed it will be far to late for most of them. They can rescue a us soldier from a hospital. Why not drop some medical supplies off to Dr's in areas of the city they already control. Better still treat some of these civilians in mobile surgical units.

In their blantent disregard for wounded, they are sewing the seeds of more anti-Americans in the future.

Yes trapper, medical supplies are alot cheaper than bombs. That kinda was my point... Honestly, do you think some guy with burns, scrapes and broken limbs, not to mention dead friends and family and a demolished house, all from American bombs, yet no damn painkillers to be seen, is gonna support all this liberation bullshit?