The children in Iraq - many pics>>>

[Kadie]

What does it do to a child to grow up like this?


An Iraqi girl walks with her father in front of the wreckage of a truck that was destroyed by a car bomb in Baghdad. US President George W. Bush said that his latest trip to Baghdad had banished any doubt that Iraq's new leaders are determined to secure their country, eventually allowing a US withdrawal.(AFP/Wisam Sami)


An Iraqi girl looks out through the shattered windows of her apartment above the scene of a parked car bomb that struck the northern district of Qahira, killing at least four civilians and wounding six according to police, in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, June 14, 2006. Iraqi troops were out in force and cars were backed up at checkpoints Wednesday in Baghdad as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched a major security crackdown aimed at ending the violence that has devastated the capital. (



A boy with head injury waits for treatment at a hospital after a car bomb attack, which killed two people and wounded seven, hours after Iraqi troops stepped up security in the capital, as part of what the government said was a major crackdown in Baghdad, June 14, 2006. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)



A boy cries during the funeral of his father who was among those killed from Monday night's car bomb attack which killed 10 people and wounded 25 others in a market in western Baghdad, June 13, 2006. REUTERS/Ali Jasim (IRAQ)


An Iraqi girl, seen here in May 2006 holding a sibling at the entrance to their tent in a displaced person camp in Baghdad. The world refugee population has begun to rise for the first time in four years, largely due to instability in Iraq, according to a survey released by a US group.(AFP/File/Wisam Sami)



An Iraqi girl looks from the window a house that was partially destroyed during an attack in outskirts of the restive city of Baquba. Iraq released almost 600 detainees, mostly Sunni Arabs, in a bid to promote national reconciliation amid sectarian violence that has left thousands dead in the past few months.(AFP/Ali Yussef)


A young girl walks past the scene, after a road side bomb exploded near the Shiite mosque of Al-Rasool in the Palestine neighborhood in eastern Baghdad Monday night, injuring two civilians and damaging the wall of the Shiite mosque, in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, June 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)



An Iraqi boy holds blood-stained clothes at the scene of Monday night's car bomb attack which killed five people and wounded nineteen in Baghdad's Sadr city, June 13, 2006. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)


A boy lies in a hospital after he was wounded from a car bomb blast near a funeral reception Tuesday night, which killed five people and wounded 12 others in Baghdad, June 7, 2006. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)


An Iraqi boy mourns his brother outside a hospital in Baghdad. At least 15 people were killed in rebel violence across Iraq.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)


A boy cries as he waits outside Baghdad's al-Yarmouk hospital June 1, 2006. Two of his brothers were shot by unknown gunmen killing one and seriously wounding the second. REUTERS/Ali Jasim (IRAQ)



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[sinkingfeeling]

1. It creates hate for those who brought this 'freedom' to their lives.

[stop the bleeding]

2. I will not let this thread drop

I am ashamed and sorry for what my "leader's" have done to these human beings.

[IsIt1984Yet]

3. Heart wrenching.

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[dogday]

4. And the house votes on a resolution

that says we will not consider withdrawal from Iraq.... Happy days everyone:sarcasm:

[arcane1]

15. when they say "stay the course", THIS is the fucking course!!!!!

:grr::mad::banghead::grr::mad::banghead::grr::mad::banghead:

[partylessinOhio]

5. Why do we do this to Arabs? The pictures remind me of how the

Palestinians have to live their lives everyday. They suffer daily and will never have any peace.

We should be ashamed and remorseful for what we have done to people in many countries in the Middle East. We are the ugly Americans.

[w8liftinglady]

6. now on the Greatest page...we need to go.

CNN doing a segment on how healthcare is much worse now than under saddam.We have created this monster.

[SoCalDem]

7. the child of your enemy, is the enemy of your child

[Tom Joad]

8. REmember, the DSCC wants you to support Joe Lieberman this year.

and they want you to forget these children.

Here's hoping we won't listen to them.

[lumpy]

23. Those children will never forget.

God I wish there was something we could do to stop this. My heart aches with theirs.

[ThomCat]

9. Kick and Recommend.

This thread needs to be seen.

[bdamomma]

10. how dare we or this deadly regime do this to these beautiful

children, how would we feel if it happened to our children.

[PA Democrat]

11. We're breeding a whole new generation of hate.

K & R

[MsKandice01]

12. That last picture made me cry...

Those poor children. What the fuck are we doing to these kids??

[Kadie]

13. me too.

They need to stop and think about the children. I can't imagine what they are going through.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Mark 10:14 - Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me ..."

bush says, Let me come to the children and make them suffer.

[Kadie]

16. .

[Wilms]

17. .

[upi402]

18. i HATE republicans

can't stand the results of this blind faith in a fascist leader, brought about by unexamined patriotism. i am just sick for those kids. they did nothing to the BushCo but were born atop oil.

[hopeisaplace]

19. I almost didn't open this thread but I had to

My heart breaks for the children. I'm at a loss for words. It's beyond sad
is all I ever say. So what if I cry, these poor suffering children do not
deserve this. I'm reposting my poem I wrote for the children a while back,
it seems appropriate here.


AND THE CHILDREN DIE

Dedicated to the Suffering Child,

Now I understand Now I know
Older and wiser
I understand with pain in my stomach
The suffering of a child
I have lived to learn how unforgivable it is
to Standby while they die

A life like box in my living room tells me stories
Of babies who have no more tears to cry
Their blank stares begging for nothing
Their frail bodies exposed to us as evidence
As humanity sits by helpless, I Cry
What do I do while they die?

Am I an unwitting participant in this Me game?
Or worse, is it knowingly?
Am I forgiven because I cry?
Or do I close the light at night and know that
absolution will never be gifted to the human race
until we take each others hands as one people
united in our common goal,
making decisions advocating compassion,
above Everything

How do we find our way
While they die
Am I getting wiser or just older?
My heart aches for the children
So I try to help one
But it’s not enough for me
We need leaders who will choose to save the children
We need countries caring about their suffering people
But it is easier to build weapons
Hold my hand while we cry
And the children die

[KyndCulture]

20. What do these eyes say to you?

This one got me.... those eyes say.. "How DARE you?"

[hopeisaplace]

21. "please don't hurt my mommy"

"you scare me"
"what did I do wrong"
"why are people fighting"
"when will it stop"
"are you a friend"
"I'm hungry"


This picture rips me up too. So extremely sad.

[KyndCulture]

28. a song for this post

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/media/kynd/children.mp3

[Swamp Rat]

22. .

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[leftchick]

24. More babies from today

these poor souls, look at what the US has done to them...



Ahmed Rahim, 5, center, looks in at the remains of the supermarket attached to his house, after a parked car bomb struck the Sadiyah neighborhood of southwestern Baghdad on Thursday night, killing at least three civilians and wounding 14, in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, June 16, 2006. The car was parked near several stores, including a bakery and a grocery store, when it exploded in the mixed Shiite-Sunni Arab neighborhood. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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[Kadie]

25. .

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[tinfoil tiaras]

26. Oh, the Bush Administration really cares about children

:sarcasm:

*points to icon in sig*

[Butterflies]

27. kick

This is so sad. What memories are these children going to have for the rest of their lives?

[bluedog]

29. child labor is a major and growing problem in Iraq(UN)

UN News agency reports that child labor is a major and growing problem in Iraq. Excerpt:

BAGHDAD - Child labour remains an overriding concern in Iraq, according to one local NGO.

"We found that child labour has increased by nearly 15 percent, with many children working in unsafe environments,"

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The phenomena had emerged before the launch of the US-led invasion and occupation of the country in 2003, with reports of child labour increasing during the period of UN-imposed sanctions against the regime of former President Saddam Hussein.
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In April 2005, a survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs found that children between the ages of two and five years (some 7 percent of the total) were engaged in child labour, usually in the form of street-begging. "We've begun to see more children on the streets of the capital compared to last year," said senior ministry official Haydar Ahmed. "And many of them are begging rather than working."

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..................16 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls were illiterate.

...........Only 50 percent of the children surveyed reported that both their parents were still alive. .................Children are also vulnerable to abuse.
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In the meantime, though, many children continue to work gruelling jobs, in hopes of improving the lots of their families. "I hope one day to return to school," said 9-year-old Hussein Abdel Rahman, who sells cigarettes on the streets of the capital. "But now, I have to help my father because he's sick and alone, and he can't put food on the table."


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