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Do No Evil – "Last Touch" - Iraqi woman and her son
From the caption:
"....as the family returned from enrolling the children in
school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year."
As a parent, the prospect of the first day of school
is such an emotional time. For most of us there is a
selfish twinge of sadness - our baby is growing up, but
most of the excitement is child centered. We imagine the
friends they will make - their scholastic achievements -
we try to glimpse the adult they might be......it's such
a momentous event - a symbolic event.We've presented the
world with this new little person and now they are on their
way...............My heart just aches for that poor mother.
How do people survive such terrible grief? My feeling is
that they are never the same person coming out of it as they
were going in - I know I wouldn't be.
AnteUp - I cant answer to how they survive this, but I can give some insight to losing a love one senselessly, my younger was shot to death over a look on a NY city train on his way home from school...the child in court said he look at me hard(whatever that means) But i say all this to make my point...it's been 15 years and it still hurts like yesterday. I can't imagine losing a child in this manner.
May god bless the People of Iraq and save them from this suffering.
Blackacereturn , I so sorry to hear [ or read ] that . Looking Hard is a phrase like , staring someone down . or giving the stink eye . It's easy to misinterpret someones' look . I rode the trains for years and encountered quite a few thugs . My sympathies go out to you and your family . I will pray for you .
God, I hate America. 95% of the casualties in this conflict are civilians, It is not war, it is genocide.
"God, I hate America. "
I hope you don't live in America.
America didn't kill him Islam did.
No a religion didn't kill this boy. The Civil war that was let loose by the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation killed him.
And what is at the source of this civil war? Islam.
Um, not having a strong enough central government to control the two sect. This is because of the decisions made by the Bush Administration after the fall of Saddam's government, plain and simple. The sad part is it never needed to have happened. The military planners were not listened to by the Bush Administration. The occupation could have been over in a year. It's almost like they wanted civil strife.
You live in a dream world.
Islam straps bombs to retarded girls and sends them into a place where Muslims are buying pets. This case the brave individuals fired from ambush.
Saddam had mass graves of the people he and his sons murdered. And you blame Bush. How intelligent.
They were attacking us for years and when we fight back its all our fault.
Oh you must have forgotten the thousands of kids, just like this one, who were killed under Saddam Hussein's reign. Remember the pictures of the villager who were gassed by Saddam ? Maybe you think that his actions can be overlooked but I don't. If you want to rant against the US, you should give equal time to the dictators who stink up our world.
unome2 ~
I don't hate America - I do, however, hate what has been
done in our name........many times.
I hate war profiteers - neocons, I hate the "game" of EMPIRE
and conquest when the fat cats sit at their desks raking in
the dough ........IMPROVING their life-style while the rest
of the world suffers. Giving out lucrative contracts to
special friends - contracts for misery and death for
men,women, children and animals of the earth - and that's
not even mentioning the damage done to the EARTH as well.
I am constantly amazed at their championing of "family
values". You have to wonder.......do they HAVE family?
How could you let them inherit this legacy of chaos and
conflict? Is there some special place that Cheney's
grandchildren get to go to avoid the world he has
methodically created? Blows me away - no pun intended!
Ante - Is there anything you like about living in America, assuming that you do?
Klarissa ~
There is nothing I have ever said that would indicate that
I do not love my country. It is possible to find fault with
the things we love - in fact it is our DUTY to criticize
what we see as harmful to our nation and it's stated ideals.
So, Klarissa?.......Just put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Ante,
Based on your comment, you are one of the most patriotic Americans on this site. You want the US to be great country that it should be, not the pathetic country we have become with our current leadership.
I hope you vote.
In other words roll over and let the Muslims come in and take over right. This is a war against terrorism. We did not start it. Either we win or become Muslims. Which do you prefer.
Endo,
I'm surprised that when I advocated that the US should be a great country, you thought that meant we should become Muslims. Who would have thought that you equated greatness with Islam?
It is also strange that you believe that invading Iraq is fighting terrorism, given that pretty much every knowledgable person AND EVEN Pres. Bush has agreed that the terrorists who attacked the US were NOT FROM IRAQ.
God, I hate what America has done to Iraq!
"Dear God"
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If this picture doesn't move you, then you better check your pulse.
This looks a bit staged, with that said it is a reality of the people living there. I don't know that I wouldn't do whatever it took to Kill the person responsible for killing my kid...OMG just the thought of that has make me weak in the knees.
This is a sad thing to see and makes me that much more determine to make sure there isn't another person like bush in the White House. I can't see how you on the right can view this and still be for this war...try this close your eyes and think of your kid or a kid you know for those who don't have kids...and for a moment imagine it's your or that kid, what would you do?
I have two kids and I pray to god that nothing happens to them while I am alive. I don't think I can live through that... You heartless ****** on the right may god deal out just punishment on you for condoning this behavior!
I may be suspended from this blog for this but I feel strong enough in what I am saying to risk that!
Oh I forgot, Bush was also responsible for slamming two fully loaded jets into a fully occupied office building in NYC. You should be more determined than ever that we, the civilized, rid the earth of scum who are the ones who maime, behead, use mentally challenged women as suicide bombers. Smell the coffee.
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Yes a very sad picture.
drtiyen: "Smell the coffee."
Look at the picture.
I've seen plenty, remember the pictures of the 4 Americans whose bodies were hung on the bridge and burned ? Maybe you have forgotten, but I am going to remind you. Don't blame the last touch on the US. Stop being so guilt ridden for being an American, unless you are not.
The kid is dying in his mother's arms. He didn't travel half way around the world riding on a tidal wave of war looking for guts and glory and a fat paycheck. He didn't know anything about that sh*t. So comparing four contract workers who knew exactly what they signed up for and just how dangerous it would be with a kid who was about to start his first day of school but who died before he could even begin because he was born in the wrong place at the wrong time and died because of it is pathetic.
Pal you are one sick son of a bitch.
drtiyen.. we didn't have to be in Iraq in the first place. Our men and women were ordered into Iraq. Remember?
And I'm not guilt-ridden for being an American. I just have a respect for life, yours included.
Idiot they had nothing to do with 9/11, when will you on the right pull your head out of that dark place that smell and deal with reality! NO ONE FROM IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN 9/11.
Did not move me, checked my pulse found nothing. Now what?
xlegultx ~
Maybe you have the same ailment as our Veep - your
ticker isn't working properly.
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Well I guess there are at least three who need to check their pulse.