"How can the US ever win, when Iraqi children die like this?" -Robert Fisk

[laststeamtrain]

"It was three-thirty in the morning and they were all asleep, Yassin and his friends Fahed and Walid Khaled. There was an American patrol outside and then suddenly, a Bradley armoured vehicle burst through the gate and wall and drove over Yassin. You know how heavy these things are. He died instantly. But the Americans didn’t know what they’d done. He was lying crushed under the vehicle for 17 minutes. Um Khaled, his friends’ mother, kept shouting in Arabic: "There is a boy under this vehicle."

http://www.selvesandothers.org/article10933.html

[randr]

1. Each and every single child's death

alone will condemn each and every single person that has had anything to do with the decisions and execution of this occupation to a life of hell and eternal damnation.

[Libby2]

2. I have no words

I'm at a loss.

Thank you for posting this.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Sad beyond belief...

and there are tens of thousands of stories just like this.

Some courageous media member needs to document what Baghdad looks like. The country is in ruins.

When people begin showing the truth--Bush will no longer be able to say that we're "freeing the Iraqi people". Everyone will understand that his words are hollow--and total lies.

I'm so sickened by this shit. I'm just so devastated about what is being done in my name--and that I'm also paying for it.

[seabeyond]

4. exactly. what i have been yelling about. i cannot

get beyond these babies, children, innocents being murdered and act as if it doesnt matter. they matter. as greatly as if it were my child urdered, cindy sheehans son murdered. who are the people that can look at these deaths and not feel

[undergroundpanther]

5. I hate this shit

Fuck these bullies, and these ignorant obedient fools.
Poor kid. And of course Bush don't care..

But I do.

Bush is an asshole.
All the dominator's,narcissists,authoritarian personalities, and ruling class assholes are just the bully abuser,tyrant,con man , criminal parasite class and they do not care. The sooner they are all destitute,shamed,marked as people that are toxic and people know to to stay away from them,not trust them,listen to them, care about them(enable) the better. THe sooner these pigs are not obeyed,forced to shut up, locked up or put out of power the better.
People that do not care about others are not leaders even if they dress up like one and bully the ranks as if they had authority,they are NOT leaders they do not care.Real Leaders CARE...and FAKE leaders excuse crimes by the ranks who obey because they are all bullies,enablers,bystanders or sociopaths.If you do not care IMHO you do not deserve the benefits of living among people who DO.

ELIMINATE the bullies.When is enough enough.Do not tolerate tyrants.
If you tolerate tyrants who do not care ,innocent people suffer and die for a sociopath pigs lies and profits and ego.
Stop the abuse by not tolerating abusers who do not care.

[seabeyond]

6. gotta include the mother up the street, that goes to church three times

a week. and my father that refuses to see the death and feel, and the friend trying so hard to validate, so she doesnt have to feel the shame of what we do to our fellow man and the military families that have to protect their illusion to be able to send their boys into battle..............

not just the bullies.

i tell my friend. to protect a lie is such a struggle, trust me, it really is much easier to see the truth, own the shame,........otherwise, in lie, it will be so hard to protect in storytelling

[BeFree]

8. Yes, seabeyond, great wisdom

"...it is much easier to see the truth, own the shame"

They know it is wrong, this death and destruction, yet they tell themselves it is not their doing without realizing they play a role in every innocent death incurred. How they can live with themselves is beyond my scope of understanding except that they are in total denial and/or are asleep.

Peace. Bring our troops out. Now.

[glarius]

7. The US media NEVER mentions the Iraqis being killed...only American

soldiers....My heart aches for the young American soldiers who will never live out their lives, or if they are wounded, live with limbs etc. missing....But WHY CAN'T THE U.S. NETWORKS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IRAQI INNOCENTS ARE DYING TOO?....

[Bluerthanblue]

9. oh so true, imagine

how many 'Iraqi Cindy's' there are, only sadder still is that they had had absolutely NO choice- they are victims of being born into the wrong place in the world- and they have no hope, regardless of whether troops stay or go at this point.
We took down their crumbling house- and the sinkhole waits to swallow them up.

there but for grace, or dumb luck goes any one of us- and who cares????????- we have to! we HAVE to care, if there is ever to be hope for any of us.

[lonestarnot]

10. OMG... there's your bushitler war!