MS Paint-like image editing

Howdi, I'd like to edit some WP pictures for wikipedia, essentially I want to replace some text with other text, much like MS Paint does it. Is there some software for me? Possibly for free?

as a matter of fact, it is not possible to change the text of a text with it. im relatively sure it isnt possible because the program is relatively simple, just as i wished, and ive read the description of all buttons in the edit window. The image I'm trying to edit is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Medical_legend.png . Paint would allow that, since I could copy background rectangles from around the place and supersede the old text with it bitwise. Then, I could insert new descriptions in their place. This feature of copying rectangles from an image and inserting them elsewhere is so powerful, yet so easy to learn, that I could ponder and speak ours over ours about the reasons, why imagewell doesnt have it, because a lot of work seems to have been put into it.
thanks for the try anyways, do you know yet another program?

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