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ATROCITIES OF THE COALITION OF THE WILLING
- Michael D Innis (6 September 2003)
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Inaction would have been a greater atrocity
- Anthony R Cox (9 September 2003)
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Re: Inaction would have been a greater atrocity
- Michael D Innis (10 September 2003)
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Re: Re: Inaction would have been a greater atrocity
- Anthony R Cox (10 September 2003)
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Re: Re: Re: Inaction would have been a greater atrocity
- Reehan Sabri (29 September 2003)
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Re: Inaction would have been a greater atrocity
- Imran Waheed (17 February 2005)
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Michael D Innis, Director Medisets International Home 4575
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Editor, The American Medical Association, under the pretext of preserving “the privacy, confidentiality, and consent of patients in times of both war and peace”, seeks to prohibit “commercial filming” such as Al- Jazeera’s graphic images associated with war. Al-Jazeera is doing a service to humanity by its graphic exposure of the hideous atrocities being committed by the governments of Bush, Blair and Howard the “bastards” (in the Australian Democrat Party Founder’s definition of the term) whose forces blow off the arms of a child in their fabricated claim of destroying weapons of mass destruction. If the British Medical Association or the Australian Medical Association sought to adopt such a ruse as Dr Goldrich has proposed to prevent exposure of the horrific acts of his government I’m sure there would be an uproar. It is shameful of the American Medical Association to tolerate such a subterfuge. If they don’t wish to see the carnage and havoc their leaders have caused they should get rid of those leaders – not, I suggest, in the usual American way but at the ballot box. And this time make sure that the counting of the “shards” from the ballot papers is legitimate! Michael Innis ‘ Competing interests: None declared |
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Anthony R Cox, Pharmacist City Hospital, Birmingham, B18 7QH.
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Editor, Given that Michael Innis is so pleased that Al- Jazeera has graphically shown the effects of war, then one can only hope he is equally pleased to see the uncovering of the mass graves of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's since the liberation of Iraq. The Coalition of the Willing prosecuted a war with great care; predicted casualty figures from the anti-war movement of hundreds of thousands did not happen. The Iraqi Body Count website gives an upper estimate of casualties does not reach 5 figures. (1) They are not likely to be trying to paint a flattering picture of the US. If the "peace" marchers had had their way, a Baathist regime would have continued to run rape rooms, torture chambers, children's jails, and fill even more mass graves. That would have been the true atrocity, despite the ongoing problems in Iraq. yours Anthony Cox (1) http://www.iraqbodycount.org Competing interests: None declared |
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Michael D Innis, Director Medisets International Home 4575
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Editor, Anthony Cox presents his own warped interpretation of my response to the exposure of the atrocities in the Iraq war by Al-Jazeera. I can assure him I was not “pleased” to see those pictures as he suggests, I was disgusted, as, I am sure, were others. I will not be responding to any further comments he may have. Michael Innis Competing interests: None declared |
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Anthony R Cox, Pharmacist City Hospital, Birmingham, UK, B18 7HQ
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Editor, I see Michael Innis has chosen to completely miss the point of my comments. I was merely giving him the opportunity to welcome the fall of a regime that led to such atrocities. Regards Anthony Competing interests: None declared |
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Reehan Sabri, Specilaist Registrar in Addictions Springfield University Hospital, London SW17 7DJ
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One could only welcome the fall of Saddam Hussein if the US and UK had brought something better to the Iraqis. The BBC's Panorama of 28/9/03 showed unequivocally that the new new regime is a tyrannical and brutal one whose excesses outstrip even those of the atheist Ba'athists. The lack of discipline and savagery of the American soldiers was clear to see in the hospitals where patients with acute injuries were threatened and interrogated. The situation is now so bad that medical staff have gone into hiding. While Anthony Cox accuses Michael Innis of missing his point (which is a purely political one anyway), he has himself missed Michael Innis' far greater point: that the American Medical Association is acting as a political tool of its government. Competing interests: None declared |
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Imran Waheed, Staff Grade Psychiatrist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Birmingham, B15
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Editor, The objectives of Western governments in engineering regime change in Iraq could not be clearer. Western governments continue to support a whole band of dictators and tyrants across the world such as Mubarak in Egypt, Fahd in Saudi Arabia and Karimov in Uzbekistan. Many of these tyrants make Saddam Hussein look like a choirboy. Western governments care only for their interests and do not make foreign policy decisions on the basis of altruism. The establishment of an interim authority via sham elections or the removal of Saddam Hussein does not legitimise the deaths of over one hundred thousand civilians. Anthony Cox wonders of the consequences had the "peace marchers" had their way, but conveniently makes no mention of the support given to the Saddam regime by Western governments. The oppression of Baathism has been replaced with the oppression of Western inspired colonialism. The medical profession must at this time be the voice of those Iraqis who have no voice, and not the voice of Western politicians who have no scruples in spilling the lives of the innocent masses for corporate gain. Competing interests: None declared |
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