Any Nightly News Reports On The Iraqi Children KILLED By US Air Strikes?

[leftchick]

And plenty of their mothers killed as well....

I did not think so.... :grr:

HUSAYBA, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi soldiers went on graveyard duty Thursday to help Iraqi civilians bury their dead in the aftermath of the U.S. Marine offensive in Husayba, near the Syrian border, as the main thrust of Operation Steel Curtain moved into Karabila to the east.

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And the Iraqi army accompanied civilians up the road from their new base camp in the southern part of Husayba -- the most fortified part of town -- where they helped recover the body of a 10-year-old boy from the dusty rubble of a house destroyed Monday by a U.S. air strike.

He was the last of 17 victims pulled from the debris.

At least 24 civilians from four families died in air strikes Monday in a neighborhood even the residents admit has been a haven for insurgents.

"But why did they have to drop the bombs?" they asked, almost to a man -- although not on camera, fearing reprisals by the insurgents.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/10/iraq.husa... /

[deutsey]

1. Why do you hate America?

:eyes:

[babylonsister]

2. Not directly AFAIK. A soldier on CBS said it was a bloody

day with lots of dead and wounded, but no actual statistics. :-(

[leftchick]

3. This man said he was burned ina US air strike....

I believe him...

<photo at the link>

Iraqi civilian says he was burned in a U.S. air strike that hit his home, killing 11 relatives

A good article here about the dishonest media coverage of Iraqi deaths...


http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10138

[Divernan]

4. If so, the dead children would be referred to as future "insurgents".

In the primitive battle conditions of villages being barraged with a variety of artillery shells including phosphorous, how the hell can the attackers determine which of the dead were native to the town and which may have infiltrated from Iran or Syria or elsewhere? Between the military's history of exaggerating the numbers of enemy killed, and the difficulty in identifying dead bodies as to point of origin, I don't give any credibility to the reports of "insurgents killed".

I think of native Iraqis fighting an occupying foreign power as "freedom fighters".

[leftchick]

5. I watched the CNNI report on this today earlier....

those were the tiniest insurgents swaddled in cloth, about to be buried I have ever seen.

:(

[arcane1]

7. 'pre-emption' at its worst

:evilfrown:


and I agree w/your description of the "insurgents"

If I were an Iraqi, I'd be calling them "patriots"

[spanone]

6. Meanwhile Chalabi is lunching with the elite in Washington DC.

Shame