Whatcha T'ink? -- UPDATED
He’p Me! I’m puzzled and I can’t get up!
I’m hearing about HBO’s Baghdad ER. [I gotta rely on your reports—I ain’t a gonna watch it. Hell—I can’t even watch House...]
I gather it’s real footage? So I imagine that all the people filmed have given their permission? And the Pentagon / powers that be?
I don’t know the background of the producer/director/idea guy—and I don’t know his goal with this piece? Does it show the people behind the IEDs? ...or do the injuries just come as if out of nowhere? What kind of context is given?
Can it / will it lead to a more considered debate of the course of action America wants to choose?
Is it a good idea?
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UPDATE
...The colonel said the most interesting and touching moment during his command came when an insurgent complimented the American doctors who had treated him. “Through a translator he said, ‘I never knew Americans were so good.’ That speaks volumes for what Army medicine is doing as we prosecute this war on terror,"
ThanQ! Bruce
Lot’s of good questions I don’t have answers for but there is some good information at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060517_5149.html
Be well—Bruce
Posted by on 05/22/06 at 08:14 PMI finally got around to watching this Tuesday evening (23 May)and must say it was gut wrenching and not for those who pass out when they see a papercut...but I don’t know how else you would tell the complete story any other way without those gut wrenching scenes.
The program **MAY** have been edited in such a way as to be a statement against the war in Iraq...than again, I may just be overly sensitive to some of the things said.
It’s not for the faint of heart...that said, I highly recommend watching it. For those who have never seen a combat injury, this is about as real and as close as you will get.
Be well—Bruce
Posted by on 05/23/06 at 11:03 PM
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