The “MDs with IEDs” of Britain’s National Health Service.

Dr. Khalid Ahmed, of NHS, driver of the burning vehicle that rammed the Glasgow airport entrance. Although he is now under guard in a hospital suffering from burns, his family claims him to be innocent of any involvement. Praise the Lord that this ‘benefit’ of socialized medicine has not yet come to American patients. And praise the Lord too (and the Republicans) that our country has not ‘yet’ implemented Saint Hillary’s socialized medicine plan. It was those rascally Republicans who denied the benefit of ‘MDs with IEDs’ to America by destroying Hillary Clinton’s plan for a national health care system. (IEDs are improvised explosive devices: Wikipedia.)

Those wondering why seven of the suspects in the foiled bombings by Al-Qaeda in the United Kingdom were medical doctors, need wonder no longer. It has been announced that all eight of the suspected terrorists were employees of the UK’s National Health System, the motto of which now seems to be “Those Who Cure You Will Kill You.”

Many years ago, the vast majority of doctors in Britain’s NHS were British-trained and British-born. Today “Foreign Doctors Are the Lifeblood of NHS.” The United Kingdom still trains its share of homegrowns, however many, many of the UK’s graduates choose not to practice under socialized medicine. That was a situation that NHS easily surmounted as they merely replaced the local doctors with foreigners who were not nearly as demanding as the British doctors, even though as far back as the year 2000 there were complaints from the British people: “Row Over Foreign Doctors”.

Now it has come to this: the socialization of medicine in the United Kingdom is responsible for medical doctors who are choosing to create patients rather than cure them. Today’s British NHS seems to be staffed by “MDs with IEDs”. If the British people are curious about the terrorists living in their nation who can afford to blow up pricey Mercedes Benz automobiles, they need look no further than their own NHS, which went abroad recruiting foreign doctors. “Terror Ringleader is Brilliant NHS Doctor.”

And speaking of The Lord — Jesus was a physician too and referred to Himself as such. He set a powerful example for all doctors to try and follow. See Mark 2:17 and Luke 4:23.

Medical doctors whose faith teaches them to cure people and then kill them, such as the above mentioned NHS physicians (NHS, July 2007), should read the teachings of Jesus who said “Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.” Those who follow in the footsteps of the Master Healer will lead happier lives on earth, and be well rewarded in Heaven — minus the 72 virgins.