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...commodity the Yarmouk Hospital has in abundance is doctors. A medical college next door supplies a steady stream of residents. Many of the best doctors fled Iraq before and after the war, but the demobilization of Saddam Hussein's army has left the country with a surplus of military surgeons, who are grateful for a hospital job that pays $350 a month. Their experience in battlefield medicine gives them the ability both to manage expectations and to improvise. "If a patient leaves the ER still breathing and not bleeding, then I would say we have done our job," says Qais...
...scandal is about to get nastier and more personal. Sources tell TIME that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing voluminous details of oil contracts...
...record: it is true that somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000 people have died since America’s Iraqi campaign began in March 2003. With the exception of Saddam’s murderous sons—and the gang of thugs employed as secret police by the Hussein family—each one of those deaths is a tragedy. It is even possible that many of them could have been averted if the administration’s blinded neo-cons had listened to Colin Powell and done some better pre-war planning...
...prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Baghdad, “Saddam Hussein killed no fewer than 600,000 innocent civilians” over the course of his 24-year reign...
...People who have been senior members of the previous regime cannot be entrusted to protect the population," Hussein al-Sharhistani, a deputy speaker of the parliament, told TIME. "I cannot see how they can serve in any senior position...