Children pay price of US offensive

[L84TEA]

How much more?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/110BB55F-6635-4F...

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says not a single civilian has died in the assault to retake ....But the charred bodies in the streets of the city and the children in Baghdad's Naaman hospital tell a different story."
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Twelve years old and still deeply in shock, he can barely speak.

Ala's family had fled the Iraqi city of Falluja before last Monday's all-out offensive began. He was happily playing with his brother in the garden of their uncle's house in a village outside the city. Then the rocket hit.
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Their mother sits on another bed, cradling her now fatherless two-year-old nephew.

Across the room, another two-year-old lies on a bed in a nappy, a blanket covering one tiny leg. The other one was blown off by a shell.

"Is this child one of Zarqawi's followers?" asks Nusum Hasan, flatly, holding out her nephew's bandaged right arm.

"Is any of this his fault?"
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"I want God to make the mujahidin victorious against the American occupiers who have spared no woman or child"



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[ExclamationPoint]

1. How sad

why can't people realize this child's life is much more importantant then that of a fetus?
This is certainly not his fault. I wonder what this world has come to.

[libpunkmom]

2. my heart breaks

Everytime I see the pictures of all the children in Iraq.. I just lool at my 7 year old, and think of the horror those people are living in. I am so sickened and outraged by our governmnet!!!!

[newyawker99]

3. Hi libpunkmom!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[libpunkmom]

5. Thanks!!

I have to say.. I LOVE this place... Very nice to be "around" so many people that are as pissed and disgusted as I am !!!!

[Slowhand16]

4. that is sad..

[against all enemies]

6. Pictures are worth a thousand words. This is how the world sees us.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album18