Baghdad: A doctor’s story

I just watched it on the BBC, and you can watch it online.

This is what we get from the Amer­i­cans, killing, mur­ders, no basic sup­plies for hospitals.

The doc­u­men­tary is in Al-Yarmouk Hos­pi­tal which was one of the best in Bagh­dad, not any­more under the US occupation.

A 6 years old child oper­ated on with­out anes­thetic, a Shi­ite woman ask­ing for the return of Saddam.

Peo­ple don’t know what is going on in Iraq,” he says, “they can’t hear the Iraqi peo­ple screaming.”

In the con­stant stream of news reports from Iraq, the voice of ordi­nary peo­ple seems to have been lost.

In this film, we hear from them directly… and get a har­row­ing insight into every­day life in Baghdad.

Bagh­dad: A doctor’s story

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  3. Stef says:

    Lb,

    read my lips, They are lib­er­ated from using anes­thetic and hav­ing basic sup­plies in their hospital

    As mat­dom said, iraqis are poor ppl. Poor ppl doesn’t need to have health care . Only in com­mu­nist coun­tries ‚poor ppl can have access to a free med­ical care. Like in USA , the new Iraq should have a med­ical care for ppl who can afford it. The New iraq can not become a com­mu­nist country.

    Am I good Matdom?

  4. jarn says:

    This is what we get from the Amer­i­cans, killing, murders…”

    LB, I am an Amer­i­can who wants to see Bush impeached and the war to end in Iraq, but what do you expect me to feel when I read a state­ment like that? What Bush has done in Iraq is a tragedy of epic pro­por­tions and it makes me ashamed, but his admin­is­tra­tion is guilty of incred­i­ble incom­pe­tence above all, not crim­i­nal intent. I real­ize that doesn’t make a damn bit of dif­fer­ence to an Iraqi cradling their dead child, but it is nonethe­less true. He didn’t invade to steal the oil or divide Iraq or eth­nic cleanse, even though much of this is hap­pen­ing. The fool actu­ally thought he was done when he got to play fly-boy and landed on the air­craft car­rier with the “Mis­sion Accom­plished” ban­ner in the back­ground. He’s an idiot backed by the most effec­tive pro­pa­ganda machine Amer­ica has ever seen.

    You can’t pre­tend that the abduc­tions and mur­ders have noth­ing to do with the Iraqi’s them­selves. We are not a coun­try of mur­der­ers and thieves, and you place your­self firmly in the lunatic fringe when you make state­ments like the above. It accom­plishes noth­ing except to side­line your voice, and that’s a shame.

    I agree with some of the things you bring to this blog, such as telling the story of ordi­nary Iraqis. Amer­i­cans are in a stu­por when it comes to what’s really going on, and the more your expose them to life in Iraq, the bet­ter. We’re not idiots — when we’re not being fed lies, we’re capa­ble of doing the right thing. But when you start your dia­log by call­ing us mur­der­ers, do you really expect us to lis­ten? Would you?

  5. LadyBird says:

    Jarn

    I am gen­er­al­iz­ing but I speak from the point of that using Amer­i­cans you under­stand who I mean.

  6. LadyBird says:

    Stef;

    Before the embargo and even with the embargo, Iraqi hos­pi­tals were the most mod­ern hos­pi­tals in the Middle-East, when I worked in the AMC in Ams­ter­dam, peo­ple there were very sur­prised that most equip­ment were very famil­iar for me

  7. Stef says:

    I know LB,

    Iraq had the high­est num­ber of Ph D owner per capita in ME even maybe in the world I’m not sure.
    I was par­o­died a lit­tle bit Mat­dom with the US sim­ple view of the world( US=Good lib­er­a­tor, communist=bad, bin laden =good when fight­ing com­mu­nist ‚bin laden =bad when fight­ing US, Iraq=good when fight­ing Iran and sell­ing oil to US com­pag­nies, Sad­dam = bad when fight­ing kowet and not sell­ing oil to US com­pag­nies, Iraqis= poor ppl rid­ing camel …)