Scenes of horror in Iraq orphanage - I just bet this is a Halliburton project

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/June/focusoniraq_June96.xml§ion=focusoniraq

June 2007

BAGHDAD - The images are shocking even by Iraqi standards: two dozen skeletal children, some tied to beds, others writhing in their own waste and some appearing, at first glance, to be dead.

Such was the nightmare that greeted US and Iraqi forces last week when they stumbled upon the Al Hanan orphanage for children with special needs in northwest Baghdad, according to a CBS News report broadcast on Monday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has vowed to investigate and punish those responsible, while the US military said its forces helped to evacuate the orphanage and provide medical care to the children.

“They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility,” Staff Sergeant Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News. “They thought they were all dead.” snip

Inside the government-run facility the American troops found 24 boys, many showing signs of severe neglect and starvation. Medics initially feared at least one of the boys was dead.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

1. I saw the horrific images on an Italian newspaper's site

If you want to take a look, La Repubblica.

Truly horrific. You can see the anguish on the soldiers' faces.

[Oilwellian]

2. Oh no

:cry:

[Warpy]

3. In war induced poverty, the most vulnerable go first

This time it's children who weren't born healthy.

Next time it will be adults who weren't born healthy.

Then it is the elderly.

Then it is the sick and injured.

Then it is mothers and young children.

And so it goes.

[OneBlueSky]

4. the tragic back story here is, of course, how the US invasion and occupation of Iraq . . .

have created so many war orphans . . . yet another horrendous outcome of the BushCo drive to control Iraqi oil and establish the US as a Middle East power . . .

[w8liftinglady]

5. I saw this on the news yesterday...under OUR watch

I was outraged and ashamed.