That's really swell, but....
Matthew Rosenberg of the AP - Lopsided casualty count loads U.S. hospital ship with wounded Iraqis:

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT (AP) -- Navy nurse Kimberlee Flannery came to the Persian Gulf expecting to help wounded Americans. Instead, she has been caring mostly for injured enemy soldiers.
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Navy officials won't give out numbers, but doctors and nurses said the vast majority of patients are Iraqis, including soldiers.

Iraqi women and children are among the Comfort's patients, but most of the wounded there are young men in their late teens and 20s, an emergency room doctor said on condition of anonymity. But catching a glimpse of the Iraqi wounded is difficult.

Journalists are not permitted to see them, in part because interviewing prisoners of war is a violation of the Geneva Convention, said Lt. Byron Adams, the ship's lawyer.

I'm so glad we have the ship's lawyer on the case. And of course:

But there initially were other constraints with Iraqi patients.

Officials had wanted only male nurses to tend to the prisoners in deference to cultural and security concerns.

But Flannery said the crew's demographics made that impractical.

I hope they have some real troops watching over this - I'm sure the Jihadists would like nothing more than busting up a hospital ship.

Which reminds me of Iraqi troops targeting ambulances:

Basra, March 29: Shock Trauma Platoons (STP) attached to the US Marine Corps have covered their trade mark red cross on ambulances after being targeted by Iraqi forces, a military spokesman said today.

A senior commander was quoted in an agency report as saying that the decision was made at a meeting of STPs, the first line of medical help for injured troops on the front, after fierce battles with Iraqi forces in Nasiriyah last week.

STP ambulances that were displaying the red cross were clearly and significantly targeted by Iraqis armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, he reportedly said.

Under Geneva Conventions ambulance drivers have a choice of whether to fly the red cross. But they do not receive non-combatant status in conflict if the flag is not displayed and corpsmen are captured by opposing forces.

Counting on receiving "non-combatant" status from Saddam's thugs is a poor bet anyhow.