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Baghdad ER 1:04:07 (GRAPHIC)

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HBO Documentary
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/baghdader/index.html
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'Baghdad ER': Saluting Valor On the Medical Front Lines
By Tom Shales Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 20, 2006;
To read political motives into "Baghdad ER," a poignant and powerful documentary about military medical personnel working in Iraq, would be to insult and diminish not only the film but also its subjects. Even so, the right wing has started flapping already, and the Pentagon reputedly finds the movie worrisome.
Truth is always worrisome to those with vested interests. Those who would denigrate the film -- which is a lesson in humanity, not politics -- presumably have chosen to ignore the printed prologue on the screen: "This film is a tribute to the heroism and sacrifice of the soldiers who are the patients and staff of the 86th Combat Support Hospital" -- men and women working feverishly and around the clock to put wounded soldiers back together amid the horror of a bedeviling war.
"Baghdad ER," ...deals far more in actions than in words -- the sometimes desperate actions of medical personnel who repair wounds, alleviate suffering and try to restore the spirits of soldiers who arrive in the hospital with bodies riddled by shrapnel or with severely mangled limbs.
Among the first of innumerable stinging images: a nurse carrying a severed arm from the operating table to a plastic disposal bag. Says a corporal working with the team: "We do our best, our level best, to make sure that our people survive and make it back to their homes." The prologue states that 90 percent of the American soldiers wounded in the war survive, patched up at the Baghdad hospital and flown to Germany for more thorough and elaborate care. And the patients include not only American soldiers but also Iraqi citizens.
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westysays...

This film is a realy good demonstration of why everyone in usa should apose war and not let idoits convince them that u should go and blow the crap out of a place and send troops to it in the name of comunisum, terror, ore anny other made up crappy excuse to rape countries.

same for england and other countries that are involved in this crap all the time.

stuff like this makes me realy depressed its like a country pushing u kids out of u second flaw window and hoping thay dont get hurt.

its intresting how the medicks dont blame usa i meen its a combination of both but ultimatly its the fult of usa for sending them into that situation. if usa spend that amount of cash on aid ore peacfull deployment in countries like africa ect it would do so mutch more good then a retarded mony pit that iraq is.

oh yah and i belive thay should stay in as its gona be evan more mucked up if thay leave so i hope usa likes having there kids die well done bush gov !

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