MPs bring joy to orphans, volunteers (in Baghdad)

[Barrett808]

Pfc. Bianca Natividad, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 720th Military Police Battaltion, Fort Hood, Texas, finds contentment in holding a young Iraqi girl while rocking her to sleep.
Pfc. Laura M. Bigenho

MPs bring joy to orphans, volunteers
By Pfc. Laura M Bigenho

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, Aug. 26, 2005) – Soldiers taking a break from their normal daily mission brightened the day of nearly 20 handicapped children, feeding and holding them, at an orphanage in a small Baghdad neighborhood.

Carrying cases of diapers, baby wipes, clothing and other necessities, Soldiers from 720th Military Police Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, were accompanied to the front door by neighborhood children happy to be in their presence.

Once inside, they were greeted by a young boy in a wheelchair, lighting up the room with his grin. You’d never be able to tell by the overall aura and positive attitudes of its occupants, but the orphanage is currently facing major challenges.

“The biggest challenge right now for these nuns and volunteers will be to find a new place while taking care of the children,” said Capt. Steven Slauson, chaplain for 720th MP Battalion. “They don’t know where they’re going. They just know they have to leave.”

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http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7805

[Horse with no Name]

1. Never mind that this illegal war is the reason they are orphans

or the reason some are in wheelchairs.
Don't you just love a fucking good human interest story?:puke:

[TahitiNut]

6. Exactly! Every "good thing" is in the aftermath of an atrocity.

Building schools? Only after destroying more. Caring for orphans? Only after murdering their parents. Donating drinking water? Only after destroying the water system.

In every case, it's more a matter of guilt and penance than an ad hoc 'Peace Corps.'. The amount of destruction is an order of magnitude greater than the 'good deeds.' If the media were to publish all the 'good things' alongside an analysis of the destruction that created the conditions, it would further condemn us.

It's the right-wing way ... create ten times as much poverty as their 'charity' ever addresses.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Why are people so blinded to this type of propaganda?

Hate, ignorance, apathy, partisanship, shame?

I don't get it and I don't suppose that I ever will.:shrug:

[knowbody0]

2. kill all parents, put their kids in wheel chairs

then take pictures of USA kindness.

big sigh

[FlemingsGhost]

3. This is LBN ... from the Army PR Dept., no less?

Where's the General Propaganda forum?

[Barrett808]

5. I thought it would start a nice, hot thread in LBN. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

4. This part is what I am not understanding

"“The biggest challenge right now for these nuns and volunteers will be to find a new place while taking care of the children,” said Capt. Steven Slauson, chaplain for 720th MP Battalion. “They don’t know where they’re going. They just know they have to leave.”

An American-owned orphanage owned the property that serves as this orphanage since 1991. The Americans handed the property over to the Iraqis to use as an orphanage for children with disabilities, but the Americans are taking it back to use as a school for their orphans."

The Americans gave the property to the Iraqi's and are going to take it back now so they can use it as a school? Why? So they can take pictures of all the schools they are building?
So they are going to displace orphans and the nuns taking care of these orphans for some really good propaganda?
"They don't know where they are going. They just know they have to leave?"

Everyday I am more ashamed to be an American. Every fucking single day.

[txindy]

12. Yep, evicting handicapped orphans to open a school

:patriot:

Good God. Was this story written with no sense of irony, at all? Or is it deliberately written that way to point out the obvious flaw in the official 'logic' handed down from this admin.?

I AM glad that the soldiers could help comfort the orphans, if only in a very small manner. It's good for the troops to be hands on in non-combat ways. Keeping them isolated from the locals is an easy method used to deaden their feelings towards the Iraqi people. This helps keep them involved emotionally. They're good people, the troops.

[nytemare]

8. Good for the MP's. Shame on the administration for exploiting this.

Anything to put a good face on an illegal war.

I was an MP in Zachu, Iraq, in what was Kurdistan in 91. The children were a great joy to be around. It struck me how resilient the people were.

Now, we have a different war, waged under false pretenses, and an administration and an Army that needs to pull out all the good things they can to try to take credit for them.

These troops are in a bad spot, in 110 degree heat, in a place they may never come back from, and they did something good. That is for them, and the rewards for their actions should be in the actions themselves. They do not belong to the administration or the Army as a whole.

This reminds me of the clip in F911 where Bush was skeet shooting, hit one, and turned to his lackeys and asked angrily "did anyone say good shot?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Look how skinny that poor baby is *crying*

[patdem]

14. Yes, that baby is probably much older than she looks because of

malnutrition...I bet that woman soldier thinks she is doing good..but I wonder how the soldier who killed her parents feels?? VERY sad situation for all!

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I thought the same thing.

[Divernan]

10. "taking a break from their normal daily mission", ie. killing parents

Were any of these kids orphans before Bush attacked? Were are the pictures of the armless, legless, blinded, paralyzed, grotesquely burned/scarred Iraqi children?

I grant you there are many good-hearted young Americans serving in the military in Iraq, who might in fact want to counteract the death and destruction of the war- but this smacks very heavily of Pentagon PR. And the more the Pentagon publicizes this, the more likely the children and volunteers will be injured by an attack primarily directed at the American soldiers.

[seabeyond]

11. good for them, i am glad they are able to connect to humanity

the loss for them, not having some way to connect. these people are able to. a huge good for them,. good for the babies, .......

[WhiteTara]

13. Karen Hughes is busy at work already

as the new tzar of pr, she has a big texas kind of job ahead of her. :puke: