The US Killed Children In Iraq From The Start of The War! *Graphic*

[leftchick]

It is worth remembering that the US has slaughtered whole families and babies since Shock and Awe. There have been two instances in the last six months of slaughters in Iraq that have gotten a little attention in the US media. This one went totally unnoticed in the pro-war rah rah USA ferver at the beginning of the war.

Using Cluster Bombs on Civilians is a War Crime! From April 02, 2003

Children Killed and Maimed in Cluster Bomb Attack on Town
by Robert Fisk in Baghdad and Justin Huggler


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Reporters from the Reuters news agency said they counted the bodies of 11 civilians and two Iraqi fighters in the Babylon suburb, 50 miles south of Baghdad. Nine of the dead were children, one a baby. Hospital workers said as many as 33 civilians were killed.

Terrifying film of women and children later emerged after Reuters and the Associated Press were permitted by the Iraqi authorities to take their cameras into the town. Their pictures – the first by Western news agencies from the Iraqi side of the battlefront – showed babies cut in half and children with amputation wounds, apparently caused by American shellfire and cluster bombs.

Much of the videotape was too terrible to show on television and the agencies' Baghdad editors felt able to send only a few minutes of a 21-minute tape that included a father holding out pieces of his baby and screaming "cowards, cowards'' into the camera. Two lorryloads of bodies, including women in flowered dresses, could be seen outside the Hilla hospital.

Dr Nazem el-Adali, who was trained in Edinburgh, said almost all the patients were victims of cluster bombs dropped around Hella and in the neighboring village of Mazarak. One woman, Alia Mukhtaff, is seen lying wounded on a bed; she lost six of her children and her husband in the attacks. Another man is seen with an arm missing, and a second man, Majeed Djelil, whose wife and two of his children were killed, can be seen sitting next to his third and surviving child, whose foot is missing. The mortuary of the hospital, a butcher's shop of chopped up corpses, is seen briefly in the tape.





Razzaq Kazem al-Khafaj grieves over the bodies of his children in Hilla in the southern province of Babylon. Khafaj lost 15 members (including six children) of his family as his car was bombed by coalition helicopters while fleeing al-Haidariyeh towards Babylon.(AFP/Karim Sahib)

[NNN0LHI]

1. This must be a lie because only terrorists kill children according to Bush

But then Bush still thinks the Winnebago's Of Death were real.

Don

[leftchick]

2. and he thinks the letter from Zarqawi was real

:eyes:

[rwork]

3. leftchick

Can you do anything with these pictures and your words? Can they be sent to J. Kerry and H. Clinton? I know in a few years the truth will come out about the Falujah massacre.Our Democratic leaders need to stand up, let the chips fall where they may, and say this is wrong.

[leftchick]

4. Clinton won't listen

Perhaps Kerry would. I don't know what to do. The wholsale killing of Iraqis goes totally unnoticed in Congress. These are war crimes and they do not seem to care. :(

[NI4NI]

13. E-mail pics to Congress and Senate

Show them! E-mail every member of the Senate and House! Show them that the dead were targets. Ask them if this is liberation? Ask them to trade places with the father of those children in the box and with the families of the more than 100,000 other dead innocents. Then ask them to rationally search their soul and define their own flesh and blood as collateral damage. I'm so far past anger and hate it's dangerous.

[Sinti]

5. America saw it themselves on TV

I'll never forget how sick I felt when the "Shock and Awe" campaign began, bombs raining down on Baghdad (very heavily populated city, full of civilians) and the news folks were like, Hey, Pop some popcorn, here comes the show folks! Someone really needs to bring home to people what the reality of war is. :cry:

[rwork]

7. The Fox News host

said upon watching the Shock and Awe of Baghdad. "This is the Lords Work."Jay Garner said, we need to carry a bloody stick thru the Middest.

[stray cat]

6. Its impossible to fight a war without noncombatants being killed.

[gratuitous]

8. Quite true

Which makes you wonder why so many self-described "good Christian" folks want to wage war.

I'll go with Alexander Mack: All War Is Sin.

[leftchick]

9. what a lovely term "noncombatants"

from the very start of this illegal invasion and occupation the US has dropped cluster bombs on whole cities. It is more like they are aiming for "noncombatants' in the hope of getting a few "bad guys". Just like Vietnam, the whole OIF is a war crime.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. For all their talk of "surgical" air strikes, how does this administration

explain the 30,000 (low estimate) to 100,000 (high estimate) Iraqi civilians killed since the invasion of Iraq. That's a lot of collateral damage.

[Jigarotta]

11. harumph, 'surgical strikes' by Dr. Ono Badhands. nt

[xchrom]

12. we were sold on the clinical ability of our armed forces to conduct this

war -- in fact it made us morally superior to anyone we were fighting.

i.e. bush speak for ''they shouldn't fight because we are better than them''.

well, here's our clinical, surgical ability to fight this ''war''.