Monday, March 31, 2003

Hospital Use: The difference between the US military:

Many of the patients treated have been Iraqis. "By Geneva Convention and NATO standards, casualties are taken care of in order of priority, based on injury and illness, not based on uniform," Dr. Jenkins said. "That's been the policy back to our own Civil War at least."

And the Iraqi military:

Now, investigators believe that the hospital was a den of horror rather than healing and was used by the fanatical Feyidah militia as a staging area and headquarters. Inside, the leathernecks found one room that was equipped with a bed and a car battery, indicating that it was used to electrically torture prisoners.

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