CHANGING HISTORY
Malcom Lagauche
Journalists and historians have been granted the most power on Earth: they can change things that have already happened. It is amazing how a couple of years can not only create a cataclysmic situation in Iraq, but how the history of the country prior to March 2003 changes daily. Much of the change comes not from U.S. administration officials, but from the so-called "progressive" press that opposes the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Awhile ago, I read an article about how Iraqi doctors are suffering because they have little technical literature and what they have is often outdated. That I agreed with, but the following reasons were preposterous. The writer said that the Iraqi medical system was in bad shape for 30 years and that Saddam Hussein would not allow doctors and healthcare professionals to leave Iraq, under penalty of death. I have no idea where this assumption originated. It is well known that under the Ba’athist regime, a priority was medical care. The government paid for tens of thousands of healthcare people to go to foreign countries to study, primarily in the U.S. and U.K...
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Journalists and historians have been granted the most power on Earth: they can change things that have already happened. It is amazing how a couple of years can not only create a cataclysmic situation in Iraq, but how the history of the country prior to March 2003 changes daily. Much of the change comes not from U.S. administration officials, but from the so-called "progressive" press that opposes the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Awhile ago, I read an article about how Iraqi doctors are suffering because they have little technical literature and what they have is often outdated. That I agreed with, but the following reasons were preposterous. The writer said that the Iraqi medical system was in bad shape for 30 years and that Saddam Hussein would not allow doctors and healthcare professionals to leave Iraq, under penalty of death. I have no idea where this assumption originated. It is well known that under the Ba’athist regime, a priority was medical care. The government paid for tens of thousands of healthcare people to go to foreign countries to study, primarily in the U.S. and U.K...
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