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2005-04-30 International-UN-NGOs

Belgian Doctors Bill U.S. for Treating Iraqi Girl

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Posted by Pappy 2005-04-30 3:10:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Send the doctors a note that we just deducted their share from the bill prepaid without interest in the butchery at Malmedy and Bastogne.

Posted by Phavitch Phaviting2667 2005-04-30 9:49:29 AM|| 2005-04-30 9:49:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Medical Aid for Third World" is a humanitarian agency roughly in the sense that Comintern was. Here's a photo of the kindly doctor De Belder wearing his Che t-shirt and bad-mouthing our country and the UK.

Posted by Matt 2005-04-30 9:52:14 AM|| 2005-04-30 9:52:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Iâm curious to know their reaction," he told Reuters.

Nuts!

Posted by Gen. Anthony McAuliffe 2005-04-30 10:29:40 AM|| 2005-04-30 10:29:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Nuts" -- that's great -- email that one to the US Embassy.

Interesting that Rooters plays up the gratitude angle ("Thank you, Belgium") without detecting any irony.

Posted by Matt 2005-04-30 10:34:36 AM|| 2005-04-30 10:34:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I think we should pay it - but make a big international scheme - big press conference, over sized check with the goal of making sure that the obvious message is that *we* are the generous ones and belgium are the scrooges.

And make sure that this Doctor's name is very prominent. In fact make the check out to the girl so that she can pay her 'humanitarian' doctors.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-30 10:52:09 AM|| 2005-04-30 10:52:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "...injured by a cluster bomb that also killed her brother in Baghdad in 2003..."
Skeptical. Where in Baghdad would we have used cluster bombs?

Here's the perspective of "Medical Aid for Third World":
http://www.livejournal.com/community/guerillanews/196934.html

Posted by Tom 2005-04-30 11:48:30 AM|| 2005-04-30 11:48:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I stand corrected. Apparently we did use cluster bombs against some military targets that posed imminent threat to our forces (artillery positions, etc.) and were embedded in civilian areas. But in most of the accounts I read, the civilian casualties were from later exposure to the unexploded bomblets.

Posted by Tom 2005-04-30 12:03:00 PM|| 2005-04-30 12:03:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The US Embassy should send a short note. ESAD commie.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-30 12:18:51 PM|| 2005-04-30 12:18:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Them Cluster Bombs will kill you extra dead so they should be banned unless they're needed to fight colonialist exploiters or right deviationists wrecking centres.

Posted by Red Barbie 2005-04-30 3:14:17 PM|| 2005-04-30 3:14:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 And yes, they should be used with the deployable ice-pick module against Trotskite Internationalists.

Posted by Red Barbie 2005-04-30 3:15:27 PM|| 2005-04-30 3:15:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I think we should bill the Belgians and all other appeaser-dhimmi tribes for the damage caused on 9-11 and for the expenses incurred in the suppression of terrorism before and since.
Without the predictable demands for appeasement and surrender, the terrorists would have no incentive to continue their outrages or, indeed, to have started them in the first place.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-04-30 10:22:26 PM|| 2005-04-30 10:22:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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