Fallujah children -- heartbreaking

[Sparkly]

Two Iraqi children, with their clothes covered in blood, wait for their parents, who were wounded in an attack by U.S. aircraft according to doctors, in the hospital in Falluja, September 17, 2004. U.S. warplanes bombed targets near Falluja on Thursday, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military said on Friday. Doctors said 16 civilians were killed in an air strike, including women and children. Photo by Mohammed Khodor/Reuters

This is BushCo's idea of "strength." They exited Fallujah at the worst moment possible, several months ago, giving over to Al Sadr to keep their political hides intact. People like General Clark were saying the situation would only get worse and eventually we'd have to go back in. And now it's US bombs doing THIS.

How can anybody see this and believe BushCo's rosy words about "liberation" and "freedom" and "democracy" in Iraq?

How can the most hard-hearted Freeper look at this, and yell "four more years?"

What on earth are people thinking?!

[redpepper]

1. I'll be damned

if I know. How did we get to this point? Do we have to kill innocent children to "free" these people? It makes me want to purge.

[ninkasi]

2. This fills me with shame and sorrow...

that this country has sunk the level of a brutal, corrupt, and cowardly place, all because this lout of a president just had to have his way. If we don't vote this bunch of thugs out in November, we may as well say good-bye to what was once a country who tried to do good in the world, and at least tried to be an example to inspire freedom.

Those beautiful kids, covered in blood, are suffering because of * and his gang of thugs. If we have any vestige of humanity left, we will withdraw our troops now, and stop this slaughter of innocent life.

[NJCher]

3. I saw this picture in my mind before I saw it here

Yesterday when I was driving home from work, I saw a father sitting with his daughter on a bench on the street of a downtown area. The little girl was sprawled across his chest and he affectionately played with her hair. They were just having a quiet, relaxed moment together on a sunny afternoon. Zoom out.

The street is full of parked cars--Mercedes, BMWs, Saabs. Flowers spill out of window boxes and planters. At the Beethoven Cafe, couples stroll out after a coffee.

Next to the father and girl on the bench, I envisioned a pair of Iraqi children. In my mind's eye, they looked a lot like the pair above. Zoom out.

It's hot and there are American soldiers carrying guns in your country. All around you is heat and the desert and there is no water to drink and the electricity works only once in awhile.

End of mind flash.

Every time I see Americans driving around, doing whatever, I think of what we're doing over there. There hardly is ever a time when I'm not thinking of what we're doing to those people. Are we crazy? This country is nuts if they think these acts are going to go unanswered.

Meanwhile, this insane administration is building air bases all over Iraq.


Cher

[Bluebear]

4. They hate us for our freedom.

What have we become?

[Ms. Clio]

5. Damn them all to hell

What are they thinking? Well, you could read some of the many things that were written about the Indians a century ago, and perhaps get some insight into the freeper's true, if somewhat better concealed, "nits make lice" mentality.