US Retaliation for Helicopter downing? Kill the innocent children of Iraq!

[leftchick]

This makes me so angry, sad and sick....



The body of a child is buried after being found dead in the rubble of collapsed homes, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two 500-pound bombs on what the U.S. military described as an 'insurgent command center' about 400 yards from where a U.S. helicopter went down, near Ramadi.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)



An Iraqi man walks through the remains of a house in the city of Ramadi November 3, 2005. The house was completely destroyed in an air strike on Wednesday in which a U.S. fighter jet dropped two 500-lb bombs on it a few hours after a U.S. AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter had crashed nearby. The al Qaeda group in Iraq said on Thursday it shot down a U.S. helicopter in Ramadi on Wednesday, killing two Marine crewmen, and the U.S. military said it was investigating reports it was shot down. The U.S. military said today it has identified the house as a command and control bunker for enemy insurgents. REUTERS/Stringer



An Iraqi boy cries as a child, who was found dead in the rubble of collapsed homes, is buried, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two bombs on what the U.S. military described as an 'insurgent command center' about 400 yards from where a US helicopter went down, near Ramadi. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)



People search for survivors digging through the rubble of collapsed homes, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two bombs on what the U.S. military described as an 'insurgent command center' about 400 yards from where a US helicopter went down, near Ramadi. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Is this that different than when the Nazi's......

took a bunch of villagers out to an open field and shot them in retaliation to the activities of the French Underground?
I think not.

[leftchick]

3. no, no difference at all.

:grr:

[Hardrada]

5. Or when they annihilated Lidice

when Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated.

[kweerwolf]

2. In "BushLand" there are no "innocent children of Iraq" ...

They think of it more along the lines of "launching pre-emtive action against potential future terrorists."

[ehrnst]

4. As a mother, my heart just breaks for these people. As a citizen

I get so angry when I hear necons talk about a "pro-life" President who wants to "save innocent life."

[leftchick]

6. one can not be pro-war ...

and pro-life. :(

[BJW]

7. I was driving and heard it on the radio

and I thought, "WTF? A 500 POUND BOMB???"

I was extremely disturbed by HOW it was reported when I heard it. It was "sanitized."

The report I heard was done as a simple, short statement emphasizing the "just retaliation" of US military bcz. of the helicopter shoot-down, without mention of WHERE it was dropped and no mention of WHEN it was dropped, and no mention at all of how many Iraqi people were killed or wounded.

The "common wisdom" is that we just can't leave Iraq, that it'd be an admission of weakness, of "losing" and that the situation would end up much worse. I understand this thinking, and sometimes agree, but I don't think it should be "our" choice.

We need to do what the Iraqis want, NOT what us Americans think would be "good" for them or "good" for us.

If the Iraqis can have an election on the constitution, I don't see why they can't also vote on options for U.S. troop withdrawal. Give the Iraqis a democracy where they have a true voice. There was a poll taken around the last election about whether the Iraqis suported the insurgents and wanted us there. Instead of a poll, let them vote on several options about what they want from us and when they want it, and then we do it. End of discussion.

If they want us out within a month--we go. If they want us out within a year--fine. If they want us to stay five years--okay. If the Iraqis are going to have a real shot at a democracy then it's up to them to decide, not us.

If the Iraqis experienced instability, or there was open civil war, they could then go to the U.N., or the U.N. could act on its own initiative to get outside troops back in to help out.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Another Glorious Victory against the "terrorists".

Or is it the "failed insurgency"? Maybe the dead child was really one of those Syrians the Pentagon likes to talk about.

[Loonman]

9. Winning hearts & minds

I see.

[OneBlueSky]

10. your tax dollars at work . . .

well, not really . . . more likely your grandchildren's tax dollars at work, since they'll be the ones paying the debt that buys the bombs that level the homes and kill the children . . .