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...chronicle the devastating toll of the war on the daily lives of Iraqis, I spent part of last week in Bayati's ER. In the midst of my reporting, the story turned highly personal: two members of TIME's Baghdad staff became victims of a bomb blast and were rushed to Yarmouk Hospital. From that point on, I was intimately involved in nearly every decision the doctors and staff made as they struggled to keep my badly wounded colleagues alive. In the process, I experienced the anger, anxiety, frustration and sorrow that so many Iraqis must endure, often...
Moments later, a huge blast ripped into the powder blue 1981 Toyota Corona, hurling it across the three-lane road. An improvised explosive device, intended for the patrols, had gone off just 10 feet from the car. The two men were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck...
...collapsed on the road, their clothes in tatters and both bleeding profusely from multiple wounds. As they lay moaning, a crowd of commuters gathered--but kept their distance. "Nobody dared to go near them for 10 minutes," says Hasan, "because we were all afraid there might be a second blast...
...staff members have all but forgotten the patients they saw only hours earlier. Though there will be no more bombings this day, a steady stream of patients keeps Emad busy. "Sometimes we forget that not everybody who comes here has a bullet wound or shrapnel from a bomb blast," he says. "There are many ways for people to get hurt." But it isn't long before another war wound appears in the ER: a young man shot in the hip. "Here we go," Emad whispers, almost to himself, as he gets back to work. --With reporting by Asaad Saeed/Baghdad
Coulter is a blast of fresh air in a world of whining liberal "intellectuals." She rips their empty sophistry to shreds...