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...comments implying that terrorists are brave helped prompt the cancellation of his ABC talk show, Politically Incorrect. Now Bill Maher, 50, delivers his piquant comedy on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher, which premiered last week and streams on Amazon.com The satirist talked with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about his potential as a political candidate, the network news and what his parents taught him about...
...Many of my fellow patients were injured by remote-controlled bombs, planted in roads like Route Irish, a five-mile stretch from the hospital to Baghdad International Airport. It is one thing to hear about the roadside explosions, and another to go for a ride with an HBO cameraman along "the most dangerous road in the world." The viewer sees the deadly effects all too plainly: concrete curbs smashed every few yards from explosions...
...filled Tactical Operations Command and inside a Black Hawk transporting a patient. I would have liked to see more of the crucial role played by those air rescue squads. Likewise, the big medical decisions - whether to amputate a limb or move a brain-damaged victim - get short shrift. HBO missed potentially dramatic scenes of those debates. A long, jazzy saxophone solo by a soldier reflects the melancholy mood of patients. But, despite a few emotional scenes, the film failed to plumb the mindset of casualties...
With its stark, graphic images of injured soldiers and their colleagues who tend to them, the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" is in many ways a tribute to the brave, tireless doctors at the United States Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. But not all Iraq combat surgeons think the film - which includes images of a soldier being carried from a helicopter, his face burned beyond recognition - is such a good idea. Last week Dr. Joseph Brennan, who is an Air Force Colonel, received an email directed to all Armed Forces medical personnel warning of the potential traumatic effects...
...there is. People get killed. People get blown up, mangled. I know people are going to say that people need to see the reality of that. The bottom line is: it's going to cause a lot of pain," says Brennan. "It's just sensationalism. I think it's HBO and they're trying to get viewers. And they're going to shock them anyway they...