"I saw the heads of my 2 little girls come off" April 2, 2003

[robbedvoter]

For those of you thinking Haditha is something just happened recently. No, War is like that. This is a story from the beginning of this war.:

I saw the heads of my
two little girls come off'
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/02/1048962796085.html
April 2 2003, 11:38 AM

An Iraqi mother in a van fired on by US
soldiers says she saw her two young
daughters decapitated in the incident that
also killed her son and eight other
members of her family.

The children's father, who was also in the
van, said US soldiers fired on them as they
fled towards a checkpoint because they
thought a leaflet dropped by US helicopters
told them to "be safe", and they believed that
meant getting out of their village to Karbala.

Bakhat Hassan - who lost his daughters,
aged two and five, his three-year-old son,
his parents, two older brothers, their wives
and two nieces aged 12 and 15, in the
incident - said US soldiers at an earlier
checkpoint had waved them through.

As they approached another checkpoint
40km south of Karbala, they waved again at
the American soldiers.

"We were thinking these Americans want us
to be safe," Hassan said through an Army
translator at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
set up at a vast Army support camp near
Najaf.

The soldiers didn't wave back. They fired.

"I saw the heads of my two little girls come
off," Hassan's heavily pregnant wife, Lamea,
36, said numbly.

She repeated herself in a flat, even voice:
"My girls - I watched their heads come off
their bodies. My son is dead."
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[Union Thug]

1. Any one that voted for the chimperor has blood on their hands...

ANYONE.

And most egregiously, those hypocritcal, brain-dead, fundamentalist christian motherfuckers who preach life, but masturbate over death. Fuck 'em all.

No, I'm not tolerant. Get over it.

[malaise]

6. Been happening since Wounded Knee

ther question is how to stop it.

[SpongeBob]

2. K&R for WSJ bemoaning Haditha may lower support for war and liberals

would be so very happy about it. Guess what, WSJ, we had reasons to be "happy" since April 2003 - but you didn't bother covering them.

[Ghost Dog]

3. Been happening all along.

That's been clear from reading 'normal' Spanish and most other European (not British) press.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I remember that story. I have it saved to my hardrive somewhere.

This war is the sickest thing to have happened in my lifetime.

[leftchick]

5. The USA has been blowing up innocent Iraqis since shock and awe!

every single day! :(

K&R

[dave502d]

7. I remember that story,before they went into Fallujah.n/t

[IronLionZion]

8. Notice that arabs are not rioting in the streets,

are not burning anything down, the arab media is not giving much attention to this, and no countries have stopped diplomatic relations with us....because this is nothing new.

Just because we heard about it this time, doesn't mean it hasn't been happening all along. Americans view a difference between dropping bombs on kids versus shooting them, but arabs don't. For many arabs, the war is the atrocity, not just Haditha.

[BrightKnight]

9. scared kids manning the checkpoint

I guessing that the checkpoint was manned by scared kids. It is tragic any way you look at it. This does not sound like another Haditha to me.

Perhaps there is a pattern of failed leadership.

[progressoid]

10. I've never considered suicide but if something like that happened to my

kids, I don't know if I could go on.

:cry:

[hopeisaplace]

11. Couple of days ago a photo of a crying little girl

due to her parents being killed, haunted me so much..I've had trouble
getting her little face out of my mind. She looked about the same age
as my youngest (who is 6), and I CANNOT fathom how my sweet sweet angel
child could endure this...It's so INHUMANE it's beyond words. Now this
post will stick with me as well (although I'm grateful there are no photos)

The picture from the other compelled me to write this brief poem
..this article compels me to repost it..

I PAINT YOU
Dedicated to those suffering from War,

I sit hear crying in the chair of my well painted life,
at the drawing that is yours...
Where are your colors?
My three shades of green sing out peace...
until I see your screaming walls of black
While watching you stare blankly into what was,
I am surrounded by what is,
loss that is not mine
this loss I own,
Your sketch is my torment,
Seeking absolution is my canvas
I Paint You



edit: typo