What are your thoughts on this picture out of Baghdad?

[Kadie]

Ha! That's so ... adorable: A toy gun aimed at an American GI of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team elicits a laugh at a checkpoint in Baghdad

The caption from SFGate is making light of it. I find it rather disturbing.

[cspanlovr]

1. Yoiks! Glad they're smiling.

[neoblues]

2. Surprising...

that the car and it's contents are still in one piece. Damned realistic looking 'toy'.

Allowing one's children to point such things, even in jest, at military or police officers who carry real guns and have to deal with people who commonly point real guns their direction--well, let's just say those parents aren't teaching their child very well to reach adulthood.

[lapfog_1]

3. I suspect they are teaching EXACTLY what they want their

child to learn on the way to adulthood (well, at least to 12 years old, when he becomes a martyr to the jihad).

We are creating more terrorists then we will ever kill.