Jailed Iraqi children run free as Marines roll into Baghdad suburbs

Agence France-Presse ^ | April 8, 2003

[Dirk McQuickly]

These pictures need to be on every front page in America...

[Cachelot]

Could you please post some sources regarding Burma and your claims of Islamic infiltration?

Sure. Just type in "Burma" in google, and the first hit you get should be the CIA World Fact Book. It's a fairly good barebones overview, although you may want to go elsewhere for the nitty-gritty detail.

And Bangladesh isn't the only country that Burma has "issues" with, there's Thailand too :).

But I also don't appreciate being forced to answer that question in the first place.

Too bad. But things have reached the point regarding folks who have isolationist views, that I sort of expect to find them in that camp. Nice to see that you're not one of those.

[KantianBurke]

Too bad? How about the discussions pertain solely to the issues that are raised and questions that are put forth rather than engaging in character assualts. Of course if one starts blathering about black helicopters etc then an issue can and should be raised regarding their identity. My question did not meet that standard btw.

[dnandell]

The NOW gang is going to have a field day with this. If all these Iraqi children has just been aborted.......

[mwl1]

Everyone should call their local affiliates and demand this be reported. I saw one tiny UPI story and this story, from the French press.

Do you think that CNN, CBS, ABC will ask Daschle about this?

[m1-lightning]

... and another succesful victory for the good guys. Praise God that there are still good people on this Earth willing to fight evil, for he would wipe out mankind once again.

[agrace]

Ugh, I just read through that thread. One voice of reason (I think there were only 2 or 3 on the whole long thread) posted the Scott Ritter quote about the children's prison he witnessed. I also saw the pic of the poor boy without arms, but I'm not even convinced it was from recent events in Iraq - the properties of the jpg (http://patsified.com/images/pol/disarmament.jpg) say nothing about the photo, and it's hosted by a Patsi Cline tribute site of all things, and I couldn't find the page where it originated from. Maybe it's there, but it wasn't readily apparent.

[techcor]

I'm afraid the photo of the boy is real but they don't have to act like it proves our military are targeting children. Saddam probably killed more children in a week just normally.
They just don't seem at all rational over there.
Check out a thread over here about why we fight. It has some of the pictures of Iraqis that are happy we are there. And one picture of a little girl with an American flag that really should make the cover of a magazine somewhere (not Time or Newsweek).

[Publicus]

Put Ritter into the prisons and subject him to the same treatment those poor little kids received at the hands of Saddam & Co. for a few years. When he is let out, you can be sure the next time he learns of such abominable activities he will not conceal the truth but report it like he is supposed to.

ONLY when leftists personally feel the pain do they THEN understand what the Founders, FREEPERS, and other serious minded, freedom loving, ethical Americans are talking about.

For example, if Pelosi, Dean, and the rest of those morons were gang raped by Saddam and his goons, I seriously doubt they would be opposing the war against them. In fact, those spineless rodents would probably be more vehement toward regime change than FREEPERS are. That's why a growing number just can't take these flaky, unpatriotic- repeat UNPATRIOTIC- democrats seriously.

[Grampa Dave]

RE BUMP!

[Publicus]

Ritter is just another sniveling anti-American.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Those people know who we are.

[Mark Felton]

thanks much!

[RightWingConspirator]

Perhaps that is the reason that Ritter, who prior to 1995 was insisting that the inspectors were not being allowed to do their jobs, suddenly changed and became pro-Saddam. Perhaps Saddam had some good videos of Scottie Boy, the pedophile, in full living color and surround sound that Scotty Boy didn't want to get out to his friends and family.

[Publicus]

Good questions. Our integrity and moral leadership definitely take big hits when we deviate from American virtues- honesty, hard work, accountability, and compassion.

Our support of sleazy characters over the years since WWII was justified with the excuse of not having anyine clean to work with on the ground. We also subordinated human rights, free markets, and free political systems to those who were anti-communist.

As more and more people around the world awaken to the benefits of free markets and free political systems, our need to rely on tyrants to help protect our interests also diminishes.

[Publicus]

...the same one who torments citizens for merely asking questions. You can't be partially free anymore than being partially pregnant. Either you are a free citizen living in a free republic (no pun intended) or you are a slave to the whims of others.

[VRWC_minion]

to be a prison for children — toddlers up to pre-adolescents

Wouldn't the pre-adolescent girls be right up his alley ? One wonders why he was there.

[Publicus]

GORGEOUS PIX! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THEM!

[TLBSHOW]

he is a sick sick person and I wonder what ever happened to the Fed charges on his sex at burger king with little girls?

[Luna]

I'm just wondering why the Iraqi people didn't rise up against Saddam and his henchmen.

Just something to think about: Why didn't the Jews rise up against Hitler and his Nazi regime?

We have no idea what it's like to live under a dictator like Saddam, nor the fear that such a dictator puts into the hearts of his people. Perhaps the people just became apathetic after so many years of tryanny. Who knows?