awwww, uncle sam is helping little Baby Noor, how sweet.

[mopaul]

i'm sorry but this baby noor story is bordering on obscene. the media is making such a huge deal about the good ol' u.s. of a. footing the bill to help this iraqi baby who was rescued from some raid. doesn't it just warm your heart, the outpouring of charity and love? excuse me while i puke bitter bile thinking about all the other babies who were bombed, burned, blasted, bullet ridden and forgotten forever.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060110/NEWS/601100324/1001

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Image is everything..... forget about the reality of what we have

done.... PR, that's where it's at.

[rodeodance]

6. I agree with you. At the same time, I am glad the babe is being helped.

Spina bifata is a treatable problem, especially if treated surgically early although, depending on the abnormality (wide range), there can be complications such motor loss to loss of legs --or worse, bowed and bladder problems.

[mopaul]

9. of course i'm glad too

would that we hadn't crippled hundreds of other babies in the meantime. why don't they show them on t.v. i wonder?

[choie]

2. let;s see...

1 baby Noor to over 100,000 Iraqis dead and wounded - wow, we really are humane.

[rox63]

3. Never mind the children

in our own nation who die each day for lack of adequate food and medical care. They just don't make attractive headlines. :sarcasm:

[REP]

4. And All Those on Medicare/Medicaid Are Getting What They Need, Right?

Right?

[Hello_Kitty]

5. Cooked up to provide the "good news" that's been lacking. n/t

[mopaul]

7. yeah see? there really IS good news out of iraq you liberal media types

[REP]

10. Maybe If Her Mother's Country Wasn't Being Bombed

Her mother might have been able to get the basic nutrition needed to prevent neural tube defects (folic acid) and prenatal care and Baby Jewel wouldn't need surgery to correct spina bifida. But that's just the commiepinkoliberaldouchebag in me.

[choie]

11. what???

that's crazy talk!

[rodeodance]

8. the soldiers found her--and wanted to help if they could. They are in

the midst of this war. The politicans over here should keep out of it (I dream).

[Hello_Kitty]

13. Oh I believe they wanted to help her

It's the Pentagon that decided to use it as a photo op.

[China_cat]

12. Wouldn't it be nice, though

if the child with spina bifida that lives within 6 blocks of that same hospital could get the same treatment?

[Horse with no Name]

15. Amen to that

I believe Iraq had a decent healthcare program in place before we took out their infrastructure.
This is like taking away someone's food, handing them a sandwich and then patting ourselves on the back that we are feeding the hungry.

[WatchWhatISay]

14. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the good US doctors to go to Iraq

Instead of making a seriously ill child fly all those hours to the US. At the least, I bet it caused her some additional discomfort.

And if the doctors had gone there, they could have left some badly needed medical supplies behind. Maybe even taught the Iraqi doctors how to perform the procedure for Iraqs own babies.

Of course, they might not have been able to get the same mileage from a public relations standpoint, but . . .

[Bridget Burke]

21. No. She needs advanced medical care.

Which involves MORE than doctors. Specially trained nurses, lots of expensive equipment. She has a rare condition that is best treated in a sophisticated medical setting.

Yes, I know that others also need medical care. In Iraq & our own country. But I'm glad she is being helped.

[malaise]

16. My thoughts exactly n/t

[ComerPerro]

17. And all the American babies...

Who no one on the right really seems to give a shit about once they are not longer a fetus...

[thecrow]

18. Wait! Let's not forget about all the doctors in Fallujah

and the fact that the hospitals and ambulances were the first targets of the US there.

[Saphire]

19. Sorry, but screw baby noor..... MY kids dont have health insurance

because it costs way to much for me to afford on my meager salary. Where is the sympathy for MY kids when they are sick, and I have to fork out cold cash for any help at all? There are millions of uninsured kids here in our own country that need help first, then, if any is left over, we can help the poor in our "other" country.

[Straight Shooter]

24. I hear you.

Children are at risk for dying right here in the *cough gag* pro-life U.S.A. because of lack of adequate health care, but you never read about it, because their parents have no political clout whatsoever.

All style, no substance, that's what we have become in the land of the freedom fries.

[leftchick]

20. two words... Baby Ali...

and the thousands like him who have died as a direct result of the USA in Iraq...

<snip>

Three-Month-Old Baby Ali Dies in Iraq
by Scheherezade Faramarzi


A 3-month-old Iraqi baby who prompted an outpouring of sympathy around the world after he was photographed lying emaciated in an undersupplied Iraqi hospital has died, doctors said Saturday.

Ali Mohammed Jabbar - affectionately known as Baby Ali - died of septicemia, a bacterial blood infection easily treated if more advanced medical care had been available, said Dr. Haidar Hadi of Baghdad's General Teaching Hospital for Children.

"The chance of survival would have been much, much higher if he were in a European hospital," Hadi said. "He most probably would have survived."

Baby Ali's suffering illustrated the plight of Iraq's children, who are still lacking proper medical care after more than a year of U.S. military occupation.

The hospital where Baby Ali was treated had no proper equipment to take blood and stool samples needed to pinpoint the type of diarrhea which afflicted him. Without that precision, doctors were unable to prescribe the right antibiotics for him.

"We feel so sorry to lose a patient for something considered in an ideal situation, a simple disease," Hadi said.

http://news.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2004062105.html

[long_green]

22. "Tonight on a very special 'Operation Enduring Freedom'"

I'm glad the kid is getting some treatment but I have always smelled a rat here.

[txindy]

23. We'll help her, return her to Iraq, then all bets are off.

They're on their own once the cameras are turned off. Good luck to them. They'll need it with the Cabal running the show.