"I'm going to bomb, bomb, bomb the school with everybody in it," says Iraqi kindergartner

[Blue Diadem]

Iraqi kindergarten: Smiles and vows to fight
POSTED: 9:03 p.m. EDT, May 22, 2007

snip:
"I'm going to bomb, bomb, bomb the school with everybody in it," said Omar Hussein, as he clutched a pink toy airplane.

At another point, a girl enthusiastically sang, "I give a knife to my father to slaughter the chicken. He gives me a machine gun and a rifle. Now, I am a soldier in the liberation army." (Watch the children make soldier pledges )

The same kindergarten taught up to 180 children just four years ago, before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. Today, the class has just 16 children, a result of families fleeing the war or parents keeping their children at home, fearful of bombs or kidnap gangs.

snip:Only 30 percent of Iraq's children have access to safe water, according to UNICEF

More at link: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/22/iraq.children/index.html
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[marmar]

1. Indescribably sickening and sad.....

If there is such a thing as a collective national karma, ours is f**ked. :cry:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Yes, but did he say it in American? Or in Muslimish.

Hopefully in American.

God bless America.

[babylonsister]

3. Remember, this is kindergarten. Can anyone blame these kids, when

all they've seen their whole lives is violence?

[Solly Mack]

4. I don't blame the kids...but those (some) kids will grow up and unless

something changes and changes real damn quick, they will still feel the same way.

Violence is conditioning them and America is funding that conditioning in a very real way.

[babylonsister]

5. Trust me, I know that, and try to fight it every day. They shouldn't have

to grow up that way, and we shouldn't be fueling their feelings.

[Solly Mack]

7. I know you know that. Sorry - just so sad and disgusted all at once.

Those poor babies..we're teaching them to hate us. We're creating tomorrow's terrorists just to justify our actions now.

[Blue Diadem]

6. They're so impressionable and violence, fright and bombs are all they've known.

It just breaks my heart.

I so wish there was a way to scoop them up and take them away from there to keep them safe and to let them just be little kids.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Jeez, that's true

I never realized it, but 4-year olds in Iraq have known nothing but war. And at this point, nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

What a fucked-up world. :cry:

[BootinUp]

9. The lost generation. n/t

[Madspirit]

10. They've Known Nothing Else...k&r...n/t

[bullwinkle428]

11. "We're creating enemies faster than we can kill them"

Perhaps the most on-the-mark bumper sticker I've seen in recent months...