the multiple reasons why the U.S. removed Saddam Hussein from power was the knowledge that he had weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, he had used WMD in 1988 to kill 5,000 in the Kurdish city of Halabja. But the lack of reporting on the issue as the military operation progressed gave rise to the leftist mantra “Bush lied, people died” and other morale-busting bromides designed to dispirit the American people and remove Republicans from power. All the while, we in our humble shop were among the few who contended that the reason WMD weren’t found in Iraq was that they were spirited across the desert frontier that loosely divides Syria and Iraq — the same area that the Islamic State now occupies.

It was conceded in 2013 that Syria[The Penrose drain as a finger tourniquet: a study].
As finger tourniquets are used frequently in surgery of the hand, it is necessary to study the safety of this technique in order to prevent complications of ischemia such as described by Dove and Clifford in 1982. Finger tourniquets applied with high pressure compromise the blood flow to the finger as well as damage the digital nerves. The authors use their previously described technique for controlling the pressure beneath a penrose drain and measure the tissue pressure generated by such a technique by placing a Wick catheter along the neurovascular bundle of a cadaver finger as well as in the soft tissue of an in vivo Sprague Dowley rat hindlimb preparation. The pressures measured by this technique were consistent with