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Recent Stories
March 25, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Ralph Nader
A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country
Gilad
Atzmon
Strategic Blunders by American Generals
March 24, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
Lindorff
Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
Kelly
The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
Fisk
We Bomb, They Suffer
March 22 / 23, 2003
Edward Said
The Other America
Saul Landau
The Threats of Empire
Kathleen and Bill Christison
On the Road in the West Bank
Joanne Mariner
Suing Seymour Hersh
Ann Harrison
The Battle of San Francisco
Robert Fisk
A Cauldron of Fire
Hani Shukrallah
The Gates of Hell
Chris Floyd
Memory Lane
Kathy Kelly
Imagine Chicago Under This Kind of Attack
Ramzi Kysia
Bombing Away a Chance for Joy
Linda Heard
Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch
Bradley Burston
Could the US be at War for Years?
Salvador Peralta
Mass Murder as Liberation?
Tom Gorman
Now That's a Coalition!
Jorge Mariscal
Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back?
Cindy Milstein
The Grassroots Go Global
Josh Frank
Blocking Portland's Bridges
Elaine Cassel
The Case of Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping and Insanity
Gordon Solberg
Drowning in Niceness: the Lessons of Elizabeth Smart
Tom Crumpacker
Getting to Know the Real Havana
Poets' Basement
Dobie, Guthrie, Alam, Wechsler
March 21, 2003
Ben Tripp
Blood for Oil:
the Exchange Rate
Cathy Breens
Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits
Scott Handleman
Fourth
Generation Protesting: Shutting Down San Francisco
Vanessa Jones
Paint Them
Red
Brian J. Foley
Patriotic Protest
for Professors
Zoltan Grossman
After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels?
Philip S. Golub
Inventing Demons
Richard Lichtman
On the Current Experience of Terror
Milan Rai
Blitz-Coup
Pepe Escobar
A Cheap Family Farce
Floyd Rudmin
The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets
Chris Floyd
See Rome (poem)
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
March 20, 2003
Stephen Banko
I Was a Soldier
Once
Kevin Alexander Gray
How Did We Become
an Outlaw Nation?
Shane Claiborne
Nomadic
Solidarity: Glimpses of Life in Baghdad on the Eve of War
Kathy Kelly
Waiting on the Baghdad Skies to Crack
Anthony Gancarski
Michelle
Makin's "Liberty Shields"
Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
Myths and
Facts About the War on Iraq
Jason Leopold
Cheney's
Lies About Halliburton and Iraq
Ron Jacobs
If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual
Chuck O'Connell
Predictions About the Iraq War
Douglas Herman
US Air Force Veteran on the Coming Air Campaign
Ralph Nader
Come On Democrats,
Stand Up for Peace
William Hughes
War is Theft
Sima Saeedi
Dispatch from
Iran
Hammond Guthrie
John Philip Sousa
Website of the Day
Iraq
Body Count
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March
26, 2003
A Doctor in Iraq
Outrage in
Baghdad
By APRIL HURLEY, M.D.
In
America, the alert goes: If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
In Bagdhad, at Al
Kindi Hospital Emergency, Fatima Abdullah is screaming in outrage: "Why
do you do this to us??!
Her 8 year old,
Fatehah is dead, two other daughters are on stretchers wounded by a
missile that crushed her uncle's home where they were staying outside
Baghdad, near the Diala Bridge. An extended farming family, they have
suffered with sanctions and ecomonic devastation shrinking their stock
of animals to one cow, a donkey and chickens; they are barely able to
feed themselves.
Muhammed, the four
year old crying in her arms has cuts from shrapnel and debris criss-crossing
the right side of his face and head, eyelids swollen shut.
Nada Adnan, 13 years
old and a student at high school for girls, states "I wish that
God would take Bush. Why did he do this to us? to me?". She has
an open gash on her right cranium with underlying fracture and a large,
deep shrapnel gauged cut into her upper left thigh. She has no narcotic
relief and cries out as aides press guaze into her leg wound. 9 year
old, Rana Adnan needs oxygen for a chest laceration and lung contusion
with a concussion, head laceration, and shrapnel in her left arm.
And then there is
Nahla Harbi who was a passenger driving away from Bagdad with her two
year old in her arms when a military school for boys was hit and the
explosion rolled the car fracturing both of her legs. Her child sustained
head injuries.
Less than 100 meters
from Alyermouk Hospital and a school, bombing crushed the foot of 28
year old man who was walking outside his home.
And the list keeps
going on. A 70 year old man shopping for food for his family now has
a compound fracture of his left upper arm, chest wound through his lung
requiring a chest tube and making answers and complaints more dificult.
He has rage and
opinions, just as the multitude of families do these several days.
How can I explain
reasons to them? They know that Bush's administration is interested
in oil control and that they have no interest in democracy for these
people. Why don't Americans know this? Why did we elect this man without
human feelings, they ask.
It's not easy being an American in a Baghdad Emergency room seeing victims
and their families. I wish that George Bush was here with his answers
to their outrage. ----- April Hurley is a physician from Santa Rosa,
California. She is currently living in Baghdad with the Voices in the
Wilderness' <http://www.vitw.org> Iraq Peace Team <http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org>,
a project to keep international peaceworkers in Iraq during the war,
in order to be a voice for the Iraqi people to the West. The Iraq Peace
Team can be reached at: info@vitw.org
Today's Features
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why
Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gilad
Atzmon
Strategic Blunders by American Generals
Ralph Nader
A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
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