Va. Tech Massacre Resonates in Iraq

[jmc247]

Iraqis learned of the Virginia Tech massacre on TV and radio news and filtered it through their own daily experiences with violence and tragedy.

Al-Haidary, 43, was puzzled. Shouldn’t people in America be at peace amid their relative good life, he wondered, “How can such a thing happen?”

Other Iraqis offered sympathy and also pleaded for recognition of their own plight.

“I was moved,” furniture salesman Ridha Ali al-Qaysi, 53, said of seeing the Virginia shootings on TV. “But then I thought about it and I thought this is a message (to America) about what is happening in Iraq.”

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/baghdad_upclose/entries/2007/04/17/va_tech_massacre_resonates_in.html

[leftchick]

1. thank you for this

It is exactly what I was wondering today. I am amazed they are being so gracious and kind considering.

[damntexdem]

2. I'm not surprised. They know what it's like and how horrible it is to live amid such violence.

And they know to blame Dubya, not all Americans.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. humanity and compassion have no borders

[wicket]

9. Amen

n/t

[jmc247]

4. If we just left they would stop killing each other

Sadr has said the Medhi Army only exists as a weapon against the occupation not the Sunnis.

[leftchick]

5. what Iraqi children see daily

Iraqi schoolchildren inspect bodies found in their school yard in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Police in Ramadi on Tuesday uncovered 17 decomposing corpses buried beneath two school yards in a district of the Anbar provincial capital that had until recently been under the control of al-Qaida in Iraq fighters. At least 85 people were killed or found dead in the country nearing the end of the ninth week of the Baghdad security crackdown. (AP Photo)

[jmc247]

6. Iraqi children are slaughered daily by suicide bombers

[leftchick]

8. and US troops

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[malaise]

10. Were there any suicide bombers in Iraq before the US and British bombs

destroyed their country during the invasion and then occupied it like it was their private property?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. it happens 2x a day, every day, every night, in Iraq.

it happened once in 30 years in the US, at numbers this high.