Posted on 08/12/2014 12:20:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Her mouth slightly agape, tears stream down her face as she glances around the inside of a helicopter with confusion in her eyes. She looks completely exhausted, overcome with emotion. She cries the whole flight to safety.
The Iraqi air force and fighters with the Kurdish peshmerga carried out a dramatic rescue mission Monday at Mount Sinjar, taking supplies to desperate Yazidis and ferrying a handful of people out, including Aziza.A
CNN crew was on the flight that took diapers, milk, water and food to the site where thousands of people have been driven by ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State. CNN's Ivan Watson, who was on the chopper, described the mission as "heroic." Teams hurled out bags and boxes of food from as high as 50 feet before approaching the ground. "We landed on several short occasions, and that's where -- amid this explosion of dust and chaos -- these desperate civilians came racing towards the helicopter, throwing their children on board the aircraft. The crew was just trying to pull up as many people as possible," Watson said. Soon, some of the trapped families -- including babies and the elderly -- were packed into the flight. A man held a water bottle for a woman trying drink, her head propped up on his shoulder. Others didn't make it and were left behind as the helicopter pulled away.
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It would be nice if they also brought them weapons and ammo.
They are families with mothers and children and the elderly, not fighters and have not been trained.
bttt
Where in hell is the U.S. military???
Diapers? Is that really a priority when people are dying of thirst and hunger?
Self-absorbed journalists are just empty luggage.
the one mission the vast majority right left or middle could agrfee on. Not even a question about it.
Agreed but at least the photographers sent pictures back for the world to see the desperation. I didn’t use paper diapers and my kids are in their 30s.
Whatever it takes to stop the beheading of kids as young as 3
I don’t care if Dipshit in Chief gets credit and bump in polls
And folks can quote me on this
I know folks are saying don’t go back in to fight but this just isn’t right. We should through away Obama’s ROE and kick some ass once and for all.
“I know folks are saying don’t go back in to fight but this just isn’t right. We should through away Obama’s ROE and kick some ass once and for all.”
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Well said!
Yes, but we would need to start with the White House.
If ISIS assaults them, they’re going to die anyway. They might as well have a chance of taking some of the scum with them instead of just dying helplessly.
Not our job.
We spent plenty training and equipping the Iraqis. It is their job to protect their people.
I guess our job should just be “kill the bastards wherever we can find them.”
Given that ISIS seems to have a “bring you kids to work” policy, “collateral damage” is probably a good thing.
Yes they are. It is an unfortunate fact that in today's world, whether these people will get the help they need is largely determined by the extent to which their plight is publicized.
To be effective this publicity requres images and especially video.
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