Posted on 04/09/2003 12:27:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
British Army Cpt. Richard Clare, 27, from Falmouth, is seen with stockpiles of tea and sugar found in a warehouse in Zubayr, Iraq, near Basra, Saturday, April 5, 2003. British troops have found thousands of tons of supplies stashed inside secret warehouses on the southern side of Basra. Mountains of baby food, sugar and tea have all been discovered. (AP Photo/Brian Roberts, Pool)
A British Army medic from 1 CS Medical regiment inspects a baby sleeping in a cardboard box in one the villages south of Basra, March 26, 2003. Heavy fighting raged in south and central Iraq on Wednesday and at least 15 Iraqi civilians were killed in a Baghdad street by what may have been an errant U.S. missile.REUTERS/POOL/Dan Chung
Navy medic HM3 Michael Smith of Saint Louis Missouri (R) with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company 'Raiders' treats an Iraqi baby for a breathing infection in the town of Nassiriya in central Iraq April 3, 2003. U.S. troops pushed to within 10 km (six miles) of the southern edge of Baghdad on Thursday, and were preparing to fight for control of the city's airport, U.S. officials said. Elements of four elite Iraqi Republican Guard Divisions were reported to be moving south to defend the city, but U.S. officials reported no direct engagement with the Iraqi troops. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
Medical battallion Chief Hospital Corpsman David Jones from New York, of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), holds a newborn Iraqi baby in the town of Nassiriya, April 2, 2003. Doctors supporting U.S. Marine combat operations in Iraq had to brush up their child delivery skills on Wednesday when a young Iraqi woman, Jamila Katham, was brought to their base and gave birth to a six-pound baby girl, U.S. Marine surgeons said. The baby, Katham's first child, has been named Rogenia. The mother and child, both said to be doing well, were given food, water and bandages and were later driven home in a U.S. military ambulance. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
U.S. Army Spc. Kenneth Clark from Woodward, Okla., puffs up his cheeks like the baby he was handed while being welcomed by Iraqis in Baghdad today. The soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment took over a section of northern Baghdad under sporadic rocket and small arms fire from irregular Iraqi forces. (AP Photo/John Moore)
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Great post. Very touching. It shows the character of the American soldier...In war, no fiercer opponent; in peace, no greater friend.
What a great pic!
What a contrast with the Iraqi regime holding baby food from the needy.
Once the true stories are told .. there will be even more tears
God Bless the Troops for liberating the Iraqi people
Yes, that was the story, while Saddam built all those palaces and paid blood money to Palestinian families. I don't suppose Al-Jazerra will cover this story, they've probably had enough for one day.
Exploiting Suffering*** Saddam Hussein's government uses tragic images to influence world opinion, and particularly to support the false allegation that the United Nations is killing Iraqis. These images include:
Exploiting sick and malnourished children for international television cameras;
Staging mass funerals;
Providing selective tours of empty markets and dilapidated hospitals;
Showing Iraqis with obvious diseases and blaming the sicknesses on the absence of modern medical tools, due to sanctions; and
Censoring television footage and restricting movement of journalists and television crews.
In a particularly shocking practice, the regime is known to collect the bodies of dead babies and store them for months at a time, so that they can stage mass funeral processions and create the impression that UN sanctions are killing small children.***
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