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...hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb can dispatch a burn...
...stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers, when casualties spilled into the passages: the bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters in August 2003, two major offensives against Fallujah last spring and fall, and the devastating suicide bomb in a dining hall in Mosul last December. Month after month of seeing planes arrive loaded with fresh casualties has also sharpened the cynicism of many staff. Some say they are wary of the upbeat assessments given by politicians. Major Kendra...
...hopes the commandos provide a model for improvement. Over the past year the ISOF units have conducted 538 combat missions, capturing 431 suspected insurgents, over 1,700 weapons and tons of munitions. They've seen bloody action in the battles for Najaf, Samarra and Fallujah, and have fought insurgents in Ramadi and Baghdad. Among the Iraqis' biggest successes were the capture of militants involved in the April 2004 attack in Fallujah on four U.S. security contractors; and they killed an insurgent suspected of involvement in the beheading last May of American Nicholas Berg. Advisors from the U.S. Green Berets...
...numerous terrorist factions. We cannot ignore the fact that the world has become a more dangerous place since the U.S. invasion. Kara Stahl Toronto The newly elected Iraqi government should represent all of Iraq's people. Its first actions should be to help the Sunnis and to rebuild Fallujah, which was destroyed by U.S. forces. Hospitals, schools, mosques and homes need to be constructed. Tony Passarelli Nottingham, England The Loyal Opposition Columnist Joe Klein's "The Incredible Shrinking Democrats" [Feb. 14] was way off the mark. He criticized congressional Democrats for doing what they've been elected...
...larger debate within the military about how and when to apply the rules of war in a shadowy fight against an unconventional enemy. In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses and other highly publicized excesses--such as the televised Marine shooting of a wounded insurgent in Fallujah last fall--the top brass is disinclined to tolerate rogue behavior of any kind. When asked about Pantano last week, General Michael Hagee, commandant of the Marine Corps, would not comment directly on the case but said, "There are rules of engagement. All Marines understand what they are. We will hold...