Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
The 'insurgents' in Iraq are fighting to force American troops out??
I don't think so:
Disabled child in suicide attackI betting they offered this kid a choo-choo train and a bag of candy if he just did this one little favor for Uncle Abu.....Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.
Lovely, just lovely.
Shall me compare those 'atrocities' at Abu Grahib to this cause I'm sure they're comperable.....
I agree that it takes a cold hearted animal to harm a child, regardless of race, especially when
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Cait said:
It seems to me there is one primary difference. This whole war could have been avoided if Saddam
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Maeve said:
Yes Scroff, it DOES strike a nerve. It does not please me what so ever when ANY child is hurt. An
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Mad Mikey said:
Scroff - there's collateral damage in almost any military operation. It's sad, but true.
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scroff said:
It's just collateral damage... just like Read more in Fine Upstanding People Those Insurgents
Maeve said:
As a mother of a disabled child, this story really struck a nerve with me and made me want to vom
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As a mother of a disabled child, this story really struck a nerve with me and made me want to vomit.
|| Posted by Maeve, January 31, 2005 08:52 PM ||It's just collateral damage... just like these kids
I wonder if that will strike a nerve...
|| Posted by scroff, January 31, 2005 09:16 PM ||Scroff - there's collateral damage in almost any military operation. It's sad, but true.
This, on the other hand, takes a severe lack of heart to do something this heinous. There is no spinning this cause it shows that we're dealing with animals. And they need to be treated as such IMHO....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, February 1, 2005 08:03 AM ||Yes Scroff, it DOES strike a nerve. It does not please me what so ever when ANY child is hurt. And like what Mikey says, it takes a cold heart animal to do that to a child of THEIR OWN RACE.
|| Posted by Maeve, February 1, 2005 02:37 PM ||It seems to me there is one primary difference. This whole war could have been avoided if Saddam had given the inspectors free rein to inspect. And it could have been avoided if he'd stepped down as dictator. We gave him options and we gave him plenty of warning. Also, I suspect that at least some of the killing of Iraqi civilians during the war was at the hands of their own troops. I don't believe we purposely targeted civilians. As to 9/11, that was a pre-meditated surprise attack on non-combatant targets, mostly civilians. Seems to me to be a large difference.
Also, what makes this incident so disgusting to me is that it was foisted on a child. A child probably cannot make an informed decision about such a matter. How much less so a mentally challenged child. This comes really close to the Nazi "experiments" in the concentration camps and the theory of a "super race".
|| Posted by Cait, February 2, 2005 04:06 AM ||I agree that it takes a cold hearted animal to harm a child, regardless of race, especially when that harm can be avoided. I believe it takes a cold hearted animal to harm another human being at all, especially when it can be avoided, unless, perhaps, that person is directly harming me, and then only if there is no other way.
The pictures I linked to definately could have been avoided, and while Cheney and others in the Bush administration claimed links between al Qaeda and Hussein, Bush himself stated, "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda"
The 911 Commission found no links. 911 and Iraq are two different things. We pulled troops and funding out of Afghanistan to start the war in Iraq before we found bin Fergotten.
Not one inspector sent to Iraq by this administration has found any evidence of Iraq having the now infamous WMD prior to the invasion. In January 2003 UNMOVIC and IAEA were set up and ready to inspect, having read the 12,000 page declaration from Iraq. In March 2003 UNMOVIC stated to the UN that they were receiving full cooperation. Two days later Bush gave the green light to the invasion. Had UNMOVIC and IAEA been given the needed time to inspect we would have learned what we have since learned after killing thousands of Iraqis, hundreds of Americans, and spending billions of dollars... but Condi said we couldn't wait for the "mushroon cloud"... right.
There was absolutely no reason to start dropping bombs and invading Iraq, to start killing Iraqis as we have done. The maimed kids in those pictures didn't have to happen... we did it and now we don't want to know about it.
It's appalling that we, as the greatest nation in the history of the planet, in collaberation with the rest of the world, reacting out of fear and shock after 911, were so set on invading Iraq that we could come to no other option than to start blowing things up.
|| Posted by scroff, February 2, 2005 07:47 AM ||