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LadyEllen -> RE: Failure of Care for Wounded US Soliders (3/13/2007 6:30:20 AM)
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Just an afterthought regarding the lack of planning I referred to....
The British forces went into Iraq without a lot of vital equipment - because in the lead up to the war, the ordering of this equipment may have provided a signal that it was going ahead regardless of what was happening in the UN etc. I might submit that had Bush had military hospitals taken out of mothball, then this would have provided a similar signal. Not politically advantageous.
Although I'll be the first to admit, that the ongoing lack of action on both of these matters - the provision of equipment to British troops and the opening of proper and sufficient medical facilities on both sides, seems to be something that as yet remains unresolved. But then, issuing body armour to British troops, not to mention armoured vehicles in which to patrol so they dont get blown to bits by roadside bombs, might tend to suggest its dangerous out there, and not all warm and cosy as our government might like to think. Likewise with opening sufficient medical facilities.
It pisses me off more than words can say, that two politicians' "legacies" are more important than the suffering and painful deaths and death-in-lifes of thousands.
E
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