Chris Walsh

While The Media has been spoon feeding us every detail about Brittney Spears' latest hair style and wondering where Anna Nicole's body would be buried (and even more news-worthy, who the father of her 4 month old daughter was), several U.S. Marines were saving the life of an Iraqi baby named Mariam.

This probably comes as a surprise to you, since all you've heard from Democrats and their lackeys in the dinosaur media is that Iraq is an unmitigated disaster. The Iraqis, the insurgents, and the Democrats (and an embarrassingly large number of "moderate" Republicans) all want us out of there before we make things any worse. The mainstream media are all too willing to play along, finding the air time and/or newspaper real estate to report U.S. troops body counts or the latest Hollywood scandals, then making excuses that they can only cover so many stories whenever our troops make any progress in Iraq.

Of course, they do have time to remind us that these troops are only in Iraq because they were too stupid or too poor to have any other options. The same media elite who coined the term "baby killers" during the Vietnam war era frequently remind us that they are the ones who support the troops. Of course, what they mean is they support the idea of rescuing these hapless rejects who stumbled into the armed forces by surrendering as quickly as possible so they can come back home and get back to their mediocre lives.

Chris Walsh was one such "reject." Walsh had been an EMT in St. Louis, and he joined the Navy reserves after 9/11. He was deployed to Iraq, where he served as a Medic alongside the Marines. You can read his story here, and the details that follow are taken from that article.

While out on patrol, Walsh would often set up impromptu clinics on the streets of Fallujah while his buddies set up cover positions. At great risk to himself, he would provide medical care to suffering Iraqis in the middle of an insurgent hotbed.

On one such patrol, a roadside bomb exploded just in front of the Humvee he was riding in. He and the Marines he was with set out after the triggerman, but stopped when the reached one particular doorway. A woman held an infant out to Walsh, repeating, "Baby. Baby sick." Walsh halted the pursuit and took out a digital camera. Her name was Mariam, and she had a rare condition in which her bladder had developed on the outside of her body. Walsh showed the pictures to a doctor back at base camp, Captain Sean Donovan. Donovan knew that the baby would die if she wasn't operated on soon, but such a procedure could not be done in Iraq. Continue reading this post »