That is my question, too.
The other night Larry King was speaking with a woman with the Red Cross. She was billed as speaking to him from Kuwait. She made all kinds of claims on the condition of hospitals. The implication was nothing good would be done until THEY got in.
That very day I had heard from Dr.Bob Arnot on MSNBC who is right in Baghdad and had been right at a hospital. First, he reported a quick return to normalcy. Second, he could not say enough to praise the Marines and how they were moving heaven and earth to make sure supplies and medicines and such were being distributed and such.
And as you point out, the hoarding of equipment and the drugs and medicines is a telling story. It is just what we tried to tell the crowd that blamed "sanctions" for the suffering of the Iraqi people. Dr. Bob has exposed military barracks stuffed to the rafters with food, too. Food from the "oil for food" program. Including baby food.
Why isn't the mainstream, stateside media focusing on these various angles. We know--hatred of GWB. But thank God for the embedded reporters, many of whom have really come to appreciate and respect the troops they are with. I'll take their eyewitness accounts as long as they have proven trustworthy.