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In reply to the discussion: It's too bad that Bradley Manning didn't torture and kill people instead of telling us about it [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)father, driving his children somewhere that day, seeing someone wounded on the ground, he tried to help him. Against the Rules of War when someone is wounded, and someone tries to help them, those pilots opened fire, finishing off the wounded man and killing the man who tried to help, the father of the children, and riddling the van with bullets, nearly fatally wounding those innocent children.
They were rescued by two heroes, two US soldiers who took it upon themselves when they saw the children dying in the van.
Both of those soldiers have spoken publicly about the crimes they say, happened all the time, not just day, but on a regular basis.
A documentary has been made about that awful day which has been seen around the world. The film-makers found the children wanting to know what had happened to them. The two soldiers apologized to the family. The US never contacted them.
The little girl appeared to be traumatized and her scars were visible as were the little boy's.
But the biggest trauma for them was the loss of their father.
The mother and the uncle who has taken them in, told the film makers that the van was their only means of getting around. The father's income now gone, they are struggling to take care of the children and the mother. The US Govt didn't even offer them a new van. They have trouble getting the children to the doctors they still need, or to any kind of counseling, without a car.
The US Government has never contacted them, never compensated them for their huge losses, and no counseling has ever been provided for those little children.
According to a public statement from one of the one of the soldiers when asked why he did what he did, he said 'I didn't lose my soul'.
It was a shameful crime with untold numbers of victims, and according the hero, the soldier who rescued the children, those crimes against innnocent Iraqis took place every day. That one was just filmed.
I often think of those little children .... I wonder why this country does these awful things to innocent people. And I wonder why the American people allow their government to do it in their name.
The documentary has recorded the events of that day and what happened afterwards to the victims, for history.
Only in America has it not been widely distributed. We won't bother our beautiful minds with the fate of two beautiful children who mean nothing to those who claim to represent us and to 'fighting for our freedoms'.
They do not represent me.