Her parents are dead

[kpete]

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Her parents are dead



No, this isn't from the incident in the news the other day. It's from another incident 18 months ago. In Iraq. At the hands of US troops.

War has consequences. Bush's incompetence has consequences. The war in Iraq has cost the US taxpayers over $300 billion. It has cost the US military over 2,000 lives. And it has cost this little girl her parents.

War has consequences. All of these "isolated incidents" have consequences. No American should ever forget that fact when looking back at what Bush's incompetence has cost us all.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/her-parents-are-dead.html

I am feeling a little sick right now, kpete

[Deja Q]

1. I just shed a tear.

And she's one of millions to be affected.

All we can do is hope we survive this carnage and mess.

Or, worst case scenario, pray our deaths will be comparatively benign and quick.

[sweetheart]

2. Just remember where the buck stops

It stops in mexico, its been outsourced to a little pueblo
in the mountains where a man sits with a sign "here".

[fooj]

3. .

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I remember that incident.

Who knows how many occurred that we never heard about....

Remember the Italian reporter who survived, but the Italian government agent died while rescuing her. Wasn't it American soldiers who shot them as well?

[uppityperson]

5. she is the one that has become "the face" for me.

looks like my neice, except my neice doesn't have her parents blood splattered on her.

[hopeisaplace]

6. This just breaks my heart and soul in half ..horrible beyond words

I'll worry and think about this little girl and many more kids
tonight as I go about what's left of my day...that little soul
didn't deserve this.

[LisaM]

7. She and all the thousands of others like her

What I find so ironic about this is that the fact that in the biograhies of *'s life, everyone says that his personality changed on the death of his sister. I think the death of his little sister was a terrible, heartwrenching experience. I can understand how it would scar anyone for life. Therefore, I fail to see why he is so utterly impervious to this little girl and to all the others who have lost families.

[The Stranger]

8. When I see that picture, statements like "War has consequences" really

lose meaning. Fuck consequences and fuck war. Fuck any kind of words or justification whatsoever.

The fact that this is being hidden from most Americans and secretly, devilishly supported by some of them, is a source of rage.

[malaise]

9. The works of evil

backed by the religious right. I've really had enough - to the Hague!!

[Check12]

10. Please God, make someone we all know pay for this!

I am so furious, after the election report and now this.
It may be time to bring back public floggings.

[BooScout]

11. What have we done?

What in the holy hell have we done? I honest to god don't know what to do anymore to make it stop.

[kpete]

13. BooScout

Once, again, I here you...

As sad as this all makes us, we need to KNOW, and we need to TELL everyone...

America is taking a nap or watching American Idol...

But slowly, one person at a time, they will awake

And the shame will make them SEE...

[malaise]

17. Email graphic stuff to everyone you know

Make people see.

[alphafemale]

12. In Haditha there were no orphans.

"No Child Left Behind"

:sarcasm:

[Bucky]

20. ouch

I prefer scorn to sarcasm at times like this.

[leftchick]

23. yes there actually were orphans

There was a boy who survived as well....


Girl 'hid among family's bodies during slaughter'


A GIRL whose family was massacred in Iraq allegedly by US Marines said she saved herself by hiding among the bodies of her murdered family.
Safa Younis, 12, survived an attack in November in the western city of Haditha that left 24 unarmed civilians dead.
In a video clip recorded by the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, Safa recalled the deaths of her father, mother, four sisters and brother. She said: "I pretended to be dead."

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5053109.html

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. That sounds like stories that came out of the Nanjing Massacre

:cry:

[AnneD]

14. Of all the pictures I have seen coming from Iraq...

this is the one that haunts me the most. It reminds me of the young Vietnamese girl that was burned by napalm. It is a defining moment.
Every now and again there is a photo so powerful as to pull you in and remind you of our shared humanity. It is worthy of a Pulitzer...but I wonder how many Americans have seen it.

[IndyOp]

15. "Children of Abraham" a flash presentation of events at Ishaqi (Abu Sifa)

WARNING! Photos that the BBC said were too graphic to show are IN this Flash presentation:
Ishaqi - Abu Sifa - Children of Abraham - Death in the Desert

Here is a description of several of the photos:

We know from photographic evidence that the corpses of two men, four shrouded figures (women, according to the villagers), and five children - all of them apparently under the age of five, one as young as seven months, were pulled from the rubble of the house and laid out for burial beneath the bright, blank desert sky.

We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said that an autopsy performed on the bodies found that "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head." We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said they found "spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble."

We know that two Iraqi police officials, Major Ali Ahmed and Colonel Farouq Hussein - both employed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government - told Reuteres that the 11 occupants of the house, including the five children, had been bound and shot in the head before the house was blown up.

We know from the photographs that one child, the youngest, the baby, has a graping wound in his forehead. We can see that one other child, a girl with a pink ribbon in her hair, is lying on her side and has blood oozing from the back of her head. The faces of the other children are turned upwards toward the sun; if they were shot, they were shot in the back of the head and their wounds are not evident. But we can see that their bodies, though covered with dust from the rubble are otherwise whole; they were evidently not crushed in the collapse of the house. They died in some other fashion.

We know from the photographs that two of the children - two girls, still in their pajamas - are lying with their dead eyes open. We can see that the light and tenderness that animate the eyes of every young child have vanished; nothing remains but the brute start of nothingness into nothingness. We can see that the other three children have their eyes closed; two are limp, but the baby has one stiffened arm raised to his cheek, as if trying to ward off the blow that gashed and pulped his face so terribly.

May God have mercy on our souls.

Please people. The problem isn't Haditha. The problem isn't Abu Sifa. The problem isn't Abu Ghraib. The problem isn't Iraq.

THE PROBLEM IS ONGOING USE of the US Military for control of markets and resources.

Real Shock & Awe: After 15 Years War, Sanctions 1,000,000 Iraqis Dead
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/4

Killing Hope: Over 250 Military & CIA Interventions Since World War II
http://www.killinghope.org/

Google Video:
What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy - The War Against the Third World
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3453261789658676035&pl=true

[rucky]

16. So how the hell am I supposed to "Support The Troops"?

Apologies to Agent Mike and all the pissypants who care what *they* think of us.

I would NEVER follow those kind of orders. I don't give a shit if they send me to the brig.

[Bucky]

21. Bringing them home and out of the madhouse is a good start

I don't excuse what they did. But the scorn should point a few pay grades north of the troops who are on the third tour of duty in hell and are finally starting to adapt to their environment.

[stop the bleeding]

18. God help us n/t

[Mr_Spock]

19. A man weeps because his family was blown to pieces

Oh, and don't even think of surrendering...




Yes, those are their brains - waving a white flag doesn't mean you wish to surrender - it means you want your skull removed from your body so your brain can rest comfortably on your shoulders.


I remember that family I saw blown away on live TV - CNN @ 3AM at a roadblock in Baghdad - whatever did happen to that video I wonder??

[Critters2]

25. This all just makes me feel so angry...

and so powerless! They're doing this in the name of my nation--ME!!

And all I can think is "How can I make them stop?!"

I know, I know...don't agonize, organize. But still...

[BlueEyedSon]

22. The war will cost at least 1.4 trillion by the end

[yurbud]

24. I remember seeing that video or series of pics

maybe people will start to get it now. Probably not.

[motocicleta]

26. I remember when this happened, and I will never forget it. eom

[Wilms]

27. K&R n/t

[gristy]

28. omg

............