"Last Touch" - Iraqi woman and her son [pic] »
Posted By lawrencee 1 year, 4 months ago in News"Last Touch" - Iraqi woman and her son
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Blackacereturn1 year, 4 months ago
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!
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dunkirk1 year, 4 months ago
Well I guess there are at least three who need to check their pulse.
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BoxMonkey1 year, 4 months ago
My original comment was ...
It's a shame that this picture had to be rated [ Spot News Number 1 ] . Yes this is information for the world to see , however , such grief and trauma should be for information purposes only .
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AnteUp1 year, 4 months ago
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.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 4 months ago
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.
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unome21 year, 4 months ago
God, I hate America. 95% of the casualties in this conflict are civilians, It is not war, it is genocide.
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AnteUp1 year, 4 months ago
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!
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djn3nunez31 year, 4 months ago
God, I hate what America has done to Iraq!
"Dear God"
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/x/xtc/dear god_20147941.html
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canadianrancher571 year, 4 months ago
The death of children from war or terrorist acts is always sad to see but the saddest part of this is that some people will view the picture, see the way the people are dressed and form an opinion that these people are not deserving of our feelings. As evil as Saddam was supposed to be does this not make one question our actions as well.
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Wolfie20071 year, 4 months ago
canadianrancher
"As evil as Saddam was supposed to be does this not make one question our actions as well."
No
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vor1 year, 4 months ago
Americans did not kill this boy. Sectarian hatred based on relgious belief is the culprit. It is the reason there is no solution in Iraq and likely will not be one until we leave and another strongman along the lines of Saddam takes over. American interference has exacerbated the situation but we did not create this hatred. The sects are now divided, no more mixed neighborhoods, little interaction creating an even more bleak situation for the future.
Of course none of this was factored into the neocons invasion plan where human beings (especially of the non Caucasian variety) were not considered and only the idealogical and geopolitical gains to be made mattered.
Hating America solves nothing. What the neocons have created has nothing to do with American ideals. It is just the corrupt beliefs of a privileged few.
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drtjyen1 year, 4 months ago
Right on!!! We do not behead people, or use mentally challenged people to conduct suicide missions. The scum, and this is the only appropriate term to describe them, not insurgents, should be wiped off the face of this earth.I wish our leaders have the guts to say what the silent majority thinks
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canadianrancher571 year, 4 months ago
cherev- Many around the world simply look at the way people are dressed and put a location on the event, from this they form their opinion. This picture could have taken place in many of the countries in the mid east and depending on our biases some would feel no remorse about this. My bias on this has to do with the Iraqi war. If this child had been the child of a Jewish mom in Isreal my feelings would would be the same,and I expect yours would be greater. That is why in my first comment I mentioned war and terrorists actions.
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cherev1 year, 4 months ago
"Many around the world simply look at the way people are dressed and put a location on the event, from this they form their opinion."
I find it hard to believe that anyone would form an opinion on the worth of someone's life based on how someone is dressed. I feel sorry for you that you've encountered these people.
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slate1 year, 4 months ago
Yes this could have been taken in Bosnia when Clinton had thousands of innocents bombed,,,, but since we had no foot soldiers and lost so few the left was OK with those deaths
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dandt16121 year, 4 months ago
I'm so sorry for that mother/family. Anything I think to say seems to be inadequate for the feelings I am having after seeing that picture.
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pcknowledge1 year, 4 months ago
Iraq was quite peaceful under Saddam & people where free to leave the country if they hated Saddam. If Bush had not called for an invasion into Iraq, this would never have happened. Saddam's whereabouts where always known & he could have been eliminated quietly by special forces if he had been a threat which he was not at the time Bush decided to invade. Bush/Cheney & his gang have turned our foreign policy into pure evil. I never thought I would see a day when our President would invade an entire country & kill thousands of innocent civilians for oil. I trust and hope our next President will make better decisions when it comes to foreign policy. This invasion into Iraq is one our Forefathers would never have called for. This is not the type of foreign policy our Forefathers had in mind. I don't believe they would approve of Bush's foreign policy.
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djn3nunez31 year, 4 months ago
While I agree the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq was a horrible stategic blunder that has cost countless Iraqis their lives (not that they don't matter, it's that we don't count them) But our foriegn policy of interventionism did not start with Bush and his gang.
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slate1 year, 4 months ago
Yeah if you don't talk about the rape rooms, the acid rooms, the mass graves and all the other fun stuff, I suppose those that lived in fear of a knock at their door in the middle of the night felt that living under Saddam was quite peaceful.
Being tossed in a wood chipper would become peaceful for you after about 15 seconds after they turn off the motor and start cleaning up too.
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pcknowledge1 year, 4 months ago
In my post I focused on this war in Iraq which Bush called for. I absolutely agree with what you wrote "our foriegn policy of interventionism did not start with Bush and his gang."
But I don't believe this Iraq war is a "strategic blunder." I believe it was planned out yrs ago & part of an overall plan to control the oil in Iraq.
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djn3nunez31 year, 4 months ago
The reason I think it is a strategic blunder is that the Bush Administration morphed the legitimate effort to capture or kill those responsible for the 9-11 attack into the invasion and occupation of an oil rich Arab nation that was not a threat nor participated in the 9-11 attacks. By doing so this adminstration has helped create a whole new generation of radical Arabs hell bent on hurting Americans everywhere.
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texangelwings1 year, 4 months ago
As a mother, a widow and having lost both my parents and baby sister, I can not imagine the pain of losing a child.
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crghss1 year, 4 months ago
No, the price of oil is a little over $3 a gallon. That was the price for not being a Shia or Sunni.
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jmopinion1 year, 4 months ago
Caught in the middle is right. A lot of times these Islamic fanatics use the kids as shields as these fanatics shoot from behind these kids.
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hyperbola1 year, 4 months ago
Still is. Divide and rule has been a cornerstone of Bush activities in Iraq. But, as pointed out by several above, he is not the only one.
Gladio - America's Death Plans For Democracy
Do No Evil â;; The use of proxy mercenary forces to terrorize nations into submitting to US political demands has been the cornerstone of American foreign policy. Anyone with a shred of human decency should feel compelled to fight this evil.
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/02/08/...
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SwampFox11 year, 4 months ago
To all who think we are "liberating" Iraq, and that we are dealing with the big bad-guys of al qaeda, those nasty evil doers, you've been snorting George's underwear too long. Wash your brain with botox, you're invected with that new Republican disease called DD&DD (Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest Dubya).
I saw that child's eyes before most of you were born. If you've never seen someone die, well lucky, lucky you. You can't fake the eyes, America. Take a long look at the last thing he ever saw on this planet. They should make every American look at this during Thanksgiving dinner, during church services, and every political rally. Please do enjoy, remembering Bush and Osama bin Laden say they both talk to God; wonder what the hell they talk about.
And you wonder why I'm so damned mad???
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jovial1 year, 4 months ago
There's a mob mentality that exists here in America since 911. It is perpetuated by those that try to hold on to the victim card, well beyond and after they have inflicted revenge many times over. The thirst for blood is never sated. They have become the monsters that they insist they are trying to fight.
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Mutainia1 year, 4 months ago
Wrong. It seems to me that IF we had become the monsters we're trying to fight (they aren't monsters, just brainwashed by an evil religion), we would have nuked Iran by now, and, the glassification of Mecca would have taken place, and, taken place during a Hajj due to the weapons we have in our arsonal...IF we became like the "monsters" we're trying to fight.
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