RAMADI, Iraq -- Hundreds of U.S. Marines stormed through dimly lit hallways of the largest hospital in western Iraq on Wednesday, taking control of a facility allegedly used by insurgents - and encountering a regional health infrastructure in serious decay.
Members of al-Qaida in Iraq had been using the Ramadi General Hospital, a seven-story building with some 250 beds, to treat their wounded and fire on U.S. troops in the area, the Marines said.
They said wounded Iraqi police officers who had been taken to the hospital were later found beheaded.
Hospitals are considered off-limits in traditional warfare. In western Ramadi, however, insurgents have fired on Marines from the rooftop of a women and children's hospital so often that patients were moved to a wing with fewer exposed windows.
The early-morning raid Wednesday exposed the wartime conditions that have endangered the wounded, sick and elderly in this city of 400,000 people. Doctors said they were struggling to provide basic care.
I guess this is where the tremendous outrage of the leftist-utopian-United-States-haters gets vented upon those cowardly islamo-fascists for these reckless actions against wounded and helpless women, children and old folks confined to the hospitals.
Uh-huh. Wake me up when hell freezes over.
