Posted on 03/20/2007 9:05:17 PM PDT by summer
BAGHDAD, March 20 — Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
“Children in the back seat lower suspicion,” he said, according to a transcript. “We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in back.”
General Barbaro offered no further details...
Agence France-Presse, quoting an unidentified American military official, said the incident occurred Sunday. The bombers parked the vehicle across the street from a school then ran away, leaving the children inside, the official told the news agency. The blast killed the children and three other civilians and wounded seven, the official said...
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Well, it was in the NYT. I think that counts as MSM.
Although, you're probably right - some media will ignore it.
And the reason they'll ignore it is because news like this does change public opinion.
Definitely. I can't imagine ABC evening news showing this. I suppose the people that think we are in a quagmire will feel they are right when people are blowing up children to kill Americans. But people that think terrorists are a threat to the US will feel that this proves they are right.
Describing the terrorists as Barbarians is an insult to Barbarism, the terrorists are worst than Wild Beasts and must be annihilated from the planet.
Kind of like how our liberals pushed the kids up front at the anti-USA rallies to deface public property >>> http://photos-997.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v64/140/6/65201211/n65201211_30340997_4004.jpg
Obviously, a large difference in degree but the same perverse thinking.
We should pull out immediately that the children did not die in vain (/sarc)
Its not a matter of NEED but GREED for POWER to force their evil liberal lifestyles on the American people and the world.
Y'know their lifestyle & ideology that says the traditional Judea-Christian beliefs IS unacceptable, Gays are the highest evolved humans and therefore it MUST be mandatory to be imposed on even 3 year old kids and in all schools even to the University level, that America is an inherently evil country hellbent on worldwide imperialism and therefore Democrat leaders must find ways to cripple the Military by forcing the Gay issue (and so destroy it from withing) and in all ongoing military operations to grab Defeat from the jaws of Victory.
In short America is to be immolated & humiliated esp with Bush in the White House. If and when a Liberal/RINO/Democrat takes the Presidency then in their thinking, suddenly America will be the better for it.
Oh I have no doubts of it. My wife is now pregnant with our first child. She is all thinking about cribs, clothes, diapers, etc etc.
I'm thinking now I have no excuse not to take my families security as first priority.
How tragic is that? Blowing up children? Hope hell has a real hotspot for these people and that God will have mercy on these children. It's hard to believe that human beings could do this to their kids but then, these people are hardly human anymore, are they?
they probably would have grown up in a hate filled society and martyred themselves at some point anyway. Sad, but true.
They're like our American liberals - they made a "choice."
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