U.S. Gives Iraqi Hospitals Broken Promises in Place of Medicine:

"Despite promises of over $1 billion in US funding, hospital patients in Iraq continue to suffer ongoing hardship. Problems plaguing Iraqi hospitals fifteen months into what has been a brutal, bloody occupation range from ongoing medicine and equipment shortages to an overall lack of proper medical infrastructure.

'We are getting less medical supplies now than we were during the sanctions,' said Dr. Namin Rashid, the Chief Resident Doctor at Yarmouk Hospital. 'Paul Bremer came here and talked a lot at the beginning of the occupation, but nothing has changed.' "