What about the children?
Each day our news broadcasts and journalist's photographs are filled with the faces of children, both Iraqi and American, who are suffering due to this immoral, reprehensible war action.
Supposedly the end to major combat operations happened several years ago, when our Fearless Leader declared Mission Accomplished.
Why, then, are soldiers still dying, and children still crying?
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Should we stay or should we go?
What are YOUR thoughts on this war? Is it a quagmire yet? Or do you think we're doing something worthwhile?
Whatever your opinion, please share it - but be polite, please!
Is this war worth it?
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Adam says:
Should we stay or should we go? I think we should listen to Ramones songs.
Posted January 28, 2008
Laura says:
I do think we are doing something worthwhile, though I don't think we had justification to go in in the first place. Things are turning around, and hopefully they will be able to be independent again and we can come home.
Posted January 28, 2008
No
Justine says:
I dont believe that we should be in Iraq. Its simply due to the presidents neglegence and intelligence. We're in there for oil. Nothing but it. And we would most certainly be out by now if we had followed through with our "goal", which was to stop Sudam Lusain. The four thousand soldiers, who were mothers, fathers and such have died for no particular reason anymore. America only believes lies, and doesnt care to search for the truth.
Posted April 18, 2008
imagineit says:
We were way more than lied to-- the group consciousness was manipulated to feel pain and fear and then manipulated to lash out and retaliate from that pain and fear. For decades to come this nation will come to realize how much it was duped into being an unconscious puppet of a subversion greater than Nazi Germany.
Reality is: 10,000 children are dying everyday in parts of the world the U.S. chooses to ignore or pretend to want `to be interested in and then secretly uses dirty bombs in the places it claims to be helping (like Iraq) to test its medicines, its weapons, and its impact--
and the common deer in the headlights American watching the snippet news hour wonders why we are hated so much???
Posted February 26, 2008
Ricci says:
It is hard to say, but the motives and the fact that so many innocents are being killed makes it a definite no.
Posted January 28, 2008
Lisa says:
This war was never worth anything except greater profits for the oil companies and Halliburton. And it was at the whim of an out of touch world leader who had his own agenda from the beginning. The loss of human life has been too great. By the way - anyone bothered with Osama bin Laden lately? I guess we were too busy searching for WMDs that didn't exist to bother.
Posted January 28, 2008
j3nny3lf says:
The cost in human lives, nevermind the economic cost, is way too high. We were lied into it and we've been lied through it, and at the rate we're going, more and more children from both sides will be hurt. I include the soldiers in the ranking of children. Most of them are college age, for crying out loud.
Posted January 28, 2008
War protests via RSS
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Made up of the faces of dead soldiers
Each of them was somebody's child.
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Children's Faces
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Ron Paul on Iraq
Texas Republican slams Bush "demented philosophy of conquest
Full story at http://www.thebluestate.com/2007/02/video_texas_rep.html Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) stood his ground and joined the twenty-or-so other Republicans that have decided to vote with the House Democrats in favor of a non-binding Iraq resolution that condemns President Bush's troop surge. Speaking of Bush, Congressman Paul was very straight-forward in his displeasure for Bush's "demented philosophy of conquest." Here is a portion of his floor speech: RON PAUL: "In recent decades, our policies have been driven by neoconservative empire radicalism; profiteering in the military industrial complex; misplaced do-good internationalism; mercantilistic notions regarding the need to control natural resources; and blind loyalty to various governments in the Middle East." You can add Ron Paul's name to the small list of the few level-headed Republicans left in Congress.
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hey thanks for this lens! we need more of us to speak up about all this. check out my lens about peace when you get a chance. Posted February 26, 2008 |
War links
- UNICEF - Press centre - Little respite for Iraq's children in 2007
- ERBIL/AMMAN/GENEVA, 21 December 2007: An estimated two million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education...
- Operation Iraqi Children
- Operation Iraqi Children is a grass-roots program founded in early 2004 by actor Gary Sinise and author Laura Hillenbrand . Sinise and Hillenbrand created OIC to give concerned Americans a way to reach out to war-stricken Iraqi children and support American troops in their efforts to assist them...
- Children Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos (washingtonpost.com)
- BAGHDAD -- Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, according to surveys by the United Nations, aid agencies and the interim Iraqi government...
- Courageous piece of US journalism
- Johanna Berrigan, a Catholic Worker lay person out of Philadelphia, is used to working with poor people, but she wasn't prepared for a "death row for infants" that she found in Baghdad hospitals. The hospitals, devoid of almost everything they need, and staffed by doctors exhausted and grieving, are just a place to die for the thousands of Iraqi children suffering from diseases and infections brought on by the malnutrition and contaminated water.
- Killing Iraqi Children
- In a short editorial, the Detroit News asked an interesting question: "Some war critics are suggesting Iraq terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi should have been arrested and prosecuted rather than bombed into oblivion. Why expose American troops to the danger of an arrest, when bombs work so well?" Here's one possible answer: In order not to send a five-year-old Iraqi girl into oblivion with the same 500-pound bombs that sent al-Zarqawi into oblivion. Of course, I don't know whether the Detroit News editorial board, if pressed, would say that the death of that little Iraqi girl was "worth it."
- NPR : Iraqi Children Suffer Mental Stress from War
- A new study in Iraq surveyed 2,500 kids, randomly chosen from a middle-income area of north Baghdad, to see if researchers could determine the effects of the war on their mental health. Dr. Mohammed al-Aboudi, Iraq's national mental health adviser, speaks with Linda Wertheimer about the findings.
- A 13 year old girl asks "What About the Iraqi Children?"
- When people think about bombing Iraq, they see a picture in their heads of Saddam Hussein in a military uniform, or maybe soldiers with big black mustaches carrying guns, or the mosaic of George Bush Senior on the lobby floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel with the word "criminal." But guess what? More than half of Iraq's 24 million people are children under the age of 15. That's 12 million kids.
Casualties of War
By Jenn McWhorter
Looking behind doors before
Going to bed at
Night they tuck themselves
Under the covers shivering
With fear wondering if
Tonight the nightmares will
Be averted.
The monsters come creeping in
Shadows slinking through
Dreams reaching out and
Touching the wounded ones who
Only want peace and quiet just
Some rest and tranquility some
Serenity some calm and they
Awaken in a cold
Sweat, shaken to
The core.
Disjointed thoughts and
Dreams and nightmares of
Dayfrights and terrors of
Bad things to come and take
The good times, slim though
They are, away from
The wounded ones, destroying
The small patches of
Good things that
We have managed to
Create for
Ourselves in our
Daily lives.
And our monsters live on not
Caring what they did to
Us not concerned because they
Are inhuman and inhumane
They have no souls
No hearts no humanity
They tried to strip our
Dignity our sanity our
Reality from us and we
Shook and we rocked and we
Cracked some under the
Pressure but we
Are here.
God damn it we
Are here we are
Alive living breathing and
Broke the cycle
We broke
The chain they would have
Had us forge more links on
They did not win.
Battleworn we are casualties
Of war we carry scars
We are wounded sometimes
We bleed sometimes
We cry out or hide behind
Doors or under covers or
In the arms of those who
Love us seeking
Shelter from the storms
Of memory but we
Are alive always we are
Alive we
Survived the war we
Made it through.
To us then the
Medal of Honor to us
The Purple
Heart to us the
Silver Star to us
Campaign ribbons and
Awards innumerable we are
Heroes we are
Shining lights in the
Sky we are
Amazing beings
Brave and strong.
