Shock and Horror in Safe Baghdad, eh McCain?

If McCain is right and Baghdad is so safe, then why would we need to "train for "shock and horror""?

Army Lt. Col. Donald Robinson is no stranger to bloodshed. As a civilian he served as a trauma surgeon at Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, a city so violent he says doctors call it the "Knife and Gun Club."

Nothing in Camden could fully prepare him for what he saw as chief of surgical and critical care at the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in

Iraq, however. He put in long hours there from December 2004 through July 2005.

Improved body armor and medical care mean more soldiers survive war injuries in Iraq than in past conflicts, and Robinson said well-trained army medics are making a big difference.

But Robinson said the injuries caused by Iraq's dreaded improvised explosive devices are unlike anything seen in combat before, posing constant challenges for army field surgery specialists in a conflict that has been dubbed the "Superbowl of Trauma."

So, this "Iraq is going swimmingly", I assume, is just another smoke and mirror lie by our war mongering administration.

Now as head of the Army Trauma Training Center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami, Robinson's job is to prepare other army medics bound for Iraq for what he calls the "shock and horror" of a conflict in which more than 3,250 American troops have been killed and over 24,000 wounded since the U.S. invasion four years ago.

About 1,000 soldiers and medics have completed the army trauma training program in Miami since it began in 2002, in the early stages of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. That number includes 264 military personnel since Robinson began running the program in February 2006.

I see the "surge" must be going well too, putting an end to all the violence. Right?

I am sick to death of the false reporting and "non" reporting because it may make bush look bad. Like he could ever look good! (well, maybe with a noose...) What ever happened to REPORTING the news? Aren't they supposed to just tell it, not give an opinion, not give it a little spin? Am I the only one pissed off over being treated like a child? Spoon fed lies to keep me compliant? Quiet? Sacred and unquestioning?

By the right, I am un-American. I hate the troops. I'm un-patriotic.

BULLSHIT!

It is the unquestioning right and those they bow to and those they truly serve who fit that bill. Not I. We, the left, have proven this over and over again.

"I've seen people freeze, standing across the table from me going 'holy shit!' I've seen it," he said.

"I think the only way you can get over that is to be trained to understand that, yes, it's devastating, but you sort of have to disassociate yourself or distance yourself away from what you're looking at."

This is what we are sending our troops to and WE don't support them?

Robinson declined to comment when asked about the recent scandal over shoddy conditions and bureaucratic delays for wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the flagship U.S. military hospital.

The revelations have compounded a deepening public disquiet with the war in Iraq.

"I have my own thoughts about that. But in all honesty, we were told by our bosses that's out of our lane and we don't have an opinion," he said.

Truer words have never been spoken. We are not allowed an opinion, unless our government gives us one. Democracy? Communism? or just plain Fools are we?