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They Don't Care How Many Children They Murder Comment by Larry Ross, May 27, 2006
The terrible cost in murdered, tortured, raped, imprisoned and wounded children in Iraq adds to the multiplying war crimes of Bush, Blair and Howard in their illegal and deceitful invasion, continuing slaughter and occupation of Iraq. And the war criminals are so terribly proud of the murderous mayhem they have created for no legitimate reason. Endlessly they pat each other on the back for the great job they are doing in bringing 'democracy and freedom' to the poor oppressed Iraqis, while they joyfully slaughter the innocents. It is truly amazing that our western civilization can continue, and condone, such senseless, cruel barbarism and even re-elect the war criminals. This illustrates the power of the media to deceive the people. Almost every single move and statement of the war criminals is relayed to the public with great respect, as if it is holy writ by the media. But there is almost no critical comment or analysis that might cause the public to be worried about what their leaders are doing, and exactly where they are being led. In fact our leaders are converting our civilization into a hollow shell, that contains something very evil that grows more powerful every day. The war criminals, with entirely fabricated justifications, have invaded a country and are making war on the population for no reason other than their own greed. The following article shows how evil our leaders have made our so-called 'enlightened civilized society '.
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Easily Dispensable: Iraq's ChildrenBy Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t , May 22, 2006 Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and not merely those born in Western democracies, I am no longer certain that we live in a civilized society. That women and children suffer the most during times of war is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality as old as war itself. What Rumsfeld, Rice and other war criminals of the Cheney administration prefer to call "collateral damage" translates in English as the inexcusable murder of and other irreparable harm done to women, children and the elderly during any military offensive. US foreign policy in the Middle East manifests itself most starkly in its impact on the children of Iraq. It is they who continue to pay with their lives and futures for the brutal follies of our administration. Starvation under sanctions, and death and suffering during war and occupation are their lot. Since the beginning of the occupation, Iraqi children have been affected worst by the violence generated by the occupying forces and the freedom fighters.
While I had witnessed several instances of this from the time of my first trip to Iraq in November 2003, I was shaken by a close encounter with it, a year later, in November 2004. In a major Baghdad hospital, 12-year-old Fatima Harouz lay in her bed , dazed, amidst a crowded hospital room. She limply waved her bruised arm at the flies that buzzed over the bed. Her shins, shattered by bullets when American soldiers fired through the front door of her house, were both covered in casts. Small plastic drainage bags filled with red fluid sat upon her abdomen, where she had taken shrapnel from another bullet. |
