Iraqi Toddler Tells Bush What It's Really Like In Baghdad

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BUSH (7/13/07):"Leaving now will be dangerous for Iraq, the region and the United States"


In Baghdad, even babies quickly learn to duck snipers
By Mike Drummond and Hussein Khalifa | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thu, July 12, 2007

BAGHDAD — Nawal Na'eem Karim was surprised this week to hear her toddler tell her,
"Talaq inana! Talaq inana!" — "Bullets here! Bullets here!"

He was warning her to step cautiously past the windows. Their house is in a kill zone.
At 18 months, her baby already had learned counterinsurgency survival. He still wears a diaper.

Karim's family is among hundreds in Baghdad's Shiite Muslim-dominated Amil neighborhood who are under siege in their homes; in this case from two local snipers, one apparently stationed in a minaret of a nearby Sunni Muslim mosque.

Her experience shows that the U.S. troop buildup has yet to penetrate everywhere in Baghdad, as President Bush pressed Thursday for more time for the increase to show results.

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1. "Well, they have their freedom now don't they?" -- typical republican response