Jailed Iraqi children run free as Marines roll into Baghdad suburbs

Agence France-Presse ^ | April 8, 2003

[Cultural Jihad]

How could anyone see something like this and not be for freeing them? They are nearly as bad as, Saddam himself. I would have nightmares for a long time to see these children, then say I am not for the war. And Liberals are suppose to be compassionate?

Their compassion is all one-sided. They have oodles of compassion for criminals but none for the victims. They have tons of compassion for gays but not for those who get AIDS from transfusions or from birth. They fawn over the thieves masquerading as homeless victims, but none for the taxpayers being forced to subsidize their laziness. They have lots of compassion for the jailers of children, but none for the toddlers in chains.

[js1138]

Perhaps you'd enlighten us as to exactly the U.S. has ever done to help keep Saddam in power? Perhaps you could name one Americanweapon system used by Saddam, or provide us with information about money given by the U.S. to Saddam. Perhaps you could tell us what Iran/Contra was all about.

These are real questions, not rhetorical. I suspect the answers, but I'd like to see them discussed.

[js1138]

America would still lose the war because the victory in Iraq would only bring the wrath of muslim extremeists.

It's true that we will need Republican presidents for the forseeable future, a fact not lost on the anti-war crowd.

[PistolPaknMama]

We would like to be included too!

[Coop]

You bear no responsibility for watching your neighbor beat his child until the child dies, but doing nothing to stop it? Really?

Sure I do. But it would take me mere minutes to pick up the phone and/or grab a gun.

Dissolving one international coalition, organizing another, establishing a new charter, reassigning resources, and moving the entire area of operations into another country is quite another story with a long timetable. Hey, I'm sure GHWB feels even worse than you or I do about the atrocities that occurred. And his administration did take action eventually (establishing the no-fly zones, one at a time). But hindsight is great. The administration started reacting within days, but the damage was done very quickly. Unfortunately.

[society-by-contract]

Don't be stupid, be a smarty ... Come and join the Baathist Party

"Springtime for Hitler and Germany"

[Cachelot]

The US integrity is threatened by the dictators in Burma?

Totalitarian regimes are a threat to everyone. Islamic terrorism is a product of totalitarian islamic regimes, and it dealt a blow to the US on 9/11.

But of course, there is a theory out of France and widely supported by certain groups of "Libertarians" that the 9/11 attacks were actually carried out by the Bush administration using remote-controlled planes. You wouldn't happen to fall in that particular little group, would you?

[Coop]

There was, however, a strong implication that a revolution against the Saddam regime would be supported -- and it wasn't. It should have made clear that it wouldn't be, or else it should have been supported.

People can argue about what was implied or what wasn't. The President obviously hoped the Iraqi people would rise up against Hussein. So did I. And I expected, after he had served his military up for lunch, that many of his troops would turn on him. Tragically I was wrong.

If GHWB intentionally misled those poor people with no plans to help them, then he would indeed be wrong. But I don't believe he did that. I think given Iraq's poor showing in Kuwait he expected the coup/revolution to succeed. I bet in hindsight he does regret publicly calling for an overthrow.

[dogbyte12]

Somebody with a strong stomach needs to log the responses at DU. Maybe in 2004, it can be brought out to remind us of who these folks are. I am physically nauseated. They believe either the story is false, it is true or so what... propaganda... we have juveniles in prison too so who cares if Saddam jails 5 year olds, etc.

These people genuinely hate this country. They tolerated Clinton... yes tolerated him... barely, but now that he is gone, their full revulsion of our country is baring it's ugly teeth.

These are some sick people. They genuinely don't care how many people Saddam kills, tortures, has raped etc, if it doesn't help their anti american cause.

Saddam can kill a million people for a quarter of a century, and they are outraged that less than 1% of that number will die in the liberation of these people.

Makes me ashamed to ever consider myself a democrat once. This is not the party of Scoop Jackson and Patrick Moynihan... these are malcontent traitors who feel so guilty by their upper middle class existence, that they enjoy the squallor of other people in that it helps them feel morally smug and superior.

[KantianBurke]

Odd. Burma's been under a dictatorship for almost 40 odd years and last time I checked hasn't caused us any harm. Nor is there any evidence that's been posted that claims they have ties to terrorists. Care to explain why we should involve ourselves in that armpit of a country a bit more clearly?

Nice try at a smear btw. How about you stay on topic instead of introducing wacky fallacies and generalizations?

[cgk]

"Remember, Scott Ritter told us about these kids prisons. He wouldn't go into detail because, he said, he didn't support the war would incriminate himself"

[hawkaw]

js1138,

No no no ... I completely agree with you. I was just wondering what people had to say about the question. And I agree with the responses as you may have noticed.

Don't take my question the wrong way.

hawk

[cgk]

ping to this.

[Hildy]

Wait until these kids who have been in jail for five years start going on TV to tell of their abuse. I'd like to see the anti-war protestors spit on that.

[Hildy]

Wait until these kids who have been in jail for five years start going on TV to tell of their abuse. I'd like to see the anti-war protestors spit on that.

[CyberAnt]

You got it - the next time those people show up at their house trying to demand any kind of loyalty or support - they are going to get shot - and probably several in the neighborhood will gang up and also take their retribution.

I also expect some of these people will begin to report those who are known to be fedayeen in their neighborhoods; instead of killing the thugs themselves.

[Darksheare]

They will spit on it.
The protestors do not care about truth or facts or what is right.
They only care about hating America and what it is doing.
Just so long as no-one infringes upon their 'rights' as they are protesting.
So they'll spit and gag and spout tripe about how these kids were coached to say they were in prison.

They're already saying we've planted the Al Samoud missiles.

[js1138]

Reagan used Saddam as a surrogate against Iran ...

Would you care to go into detail? What specifically did Reagan do for Saddam?

[fly_so_free]

I hope FOX news can get some footage of this, and cover this story in-depth. Anti-war (for-the-children) people need to know this. Since our troops watch FOX overseas , it would be a nice story for them to see too.

[Marysecretary]

Scott Ritter reported that he had seen children as little as a few months old in these prisons. How he could turn his back on all that sure is beyond me.