Medical help for Iraqi's
I was watching a documentary on Nova last night that followed the deployment of Army medical teams at the outset of OIF and I was disturbed at what I saw.
According to the Doctors interviewed said that they could provide treatments to Iraqi's only under the following conditions. They had to face the immediate risk of dying, losing a limb or their eyesight or their wounds had to be directly caused by our troops.
While it makes sense to restrict aid to only the most seriously wounded so that our medical staff has the rseources to focus on wounded US troops it's real world application seemed stupid in my humble unimformed opinion.
The problem is that our Doctors were turning away injuried Iraqi civilians because they weren't critical or because their wounds were the direct result of US actions but we were providing care to Iraqi insurgents/soldiers who were directly involved with trying to kill our troops because we caused their injuries. Wouldn't make more sense to force combatants back into the decimated Iraqi healthcare system while releaving that system of non-combatant injuries?
This makes no sense to me. Turn away potential allies while rendering aid to those who openly oppose our forces. Wouldn't it make more sense to send the message that if you get hurt fighting us don't expect any help while at the same time saying that we want to help all non-combatants.
I don't know if things have changed since the story was filled but it just seemed to be ass backwards.
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