Children of the War in Iraq
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What about the children?
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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Ali says:
Our soldiers didn't die for nothing!
Posted March 08, 2011
james says:
Yes It is I am currently in Iraq it is very stable and getting better. I work with many Iraqi parents who have children who we have helped and they are thankful. No matter what your opinion of the war is we cannot leave until it is stable or many more innocent children will die more then already have.
Posted December 11, 2008
soldier who dies for your freedom says:
to all of you see it on the tube..............get a life! you see what the media wants you to see, try being there personally as i have and see the real thing! Its people like you who frickin spread the propaganda that gets people angry at us the soldier who keep you alive and free whether you wan to believe it or not
Posted November 18, 2008
Adam says:
Should we stay or should we go? I think we should listen to Ramones songs.
Posted January 28, 2008
No
taskeinc says:
We should have been out of Iraq long ago, as a matter of fact we never should have been there in the first place.. remember? "Weapons of mass destruction?" Plus, it was a known fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 .. there's only one reason the U.S. has been in Iraq for 8 years and counting .. Money, Oil, and control of that region of the world .. There's also Afghanistan and the "Poppy Fields."
Posted March 27, 2011
emogirl says:
i thnk its so dumb for the person tht says yes cuz its nt fare tht other people are dieing for no reasn at all were fighting for.
Posted April 24, 2010
emogirl says:
i thnk its dumb tht were fighting just for oil thts realy dumb i have nuthing to say anymore cuz i dnt wnt to get mad anymore.
Posted April 24, 2010
irvin manzanares says:
no i mean why waste countless lives in a worth less war!!!!!!! what was bush thinking
Posted March 25, 2010
Trinity says:
"How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye."
Posted September 27, 2009
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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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Share your thoughts on why this war should end
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JudyDunn
Aug 18, 2008 @ 11:53 am | delete
- This war is invisible. Too few people are aware of the tremendous human cost of this war. If we stay, we must at least do it in a more open and informed way. The sacrifices of this war are borne by too few people.
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imagineit
Feb 26, 2008 @ 12:34 pm | delete
- 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.
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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.
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