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2007-08-15 Iraq

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Posted by Mike 2007-08-15 06:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I'm speechless. While I love that American soldiers are the best in the world at kicking arse and takin' names, it means as much (or more) that they show their human side too.

It's the little events, like this one, that are winning "hearts and minds" over there. A mother will never forget this event and the soldiers and doctors that worked to save her son, especially if he does completely heal and walks again. Little by little, also, the evil that is Islamofascism is working to turn the civilians over there against the jihadis too. Sadly, of course, this will never be printed in the MSM to show the American populace that our troops are the best and brightest in the world at this sort of thing, and that they are not the ogres and brutes they're portrayed to be.

Posted by BA 2007-08-15 08:37|| 2007-08-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#2 This sort of thing also tends to make troops moody towards a vicious enemy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-15 09:37|| 2007-08-15 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, the little boy, his mother, and the kindness of our troops makes tear up back home. It also makes one curse a damnable uncaring enemy who plants IEDs and justifies them in the name of Allah or his screwed-up cause.

The Islamofascists have gotten a pass in our media and in Hollywood. Although, the MSM and the Hollywood elites enjoy the benefits of a free society, they are mute on the good things their country-particularly the military is doing for others. And when they are not going through rehab, they take every opportunity to bash Bush or the U.S.A. or our efforts in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-08-15 11:12|| 2007-08-15 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 It certainly runs counter to The New Republic's line that soldiers are all deadened killbots.

Good for them for showing us this side.

Posted by eLarson 2007-08-15 13:55|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-08-15 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Because we do not chant and cheer at the sight of burnt bodies hung from a bridge.

Posted by Steven 2007-08-15 14:37|| 2007-08-15 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Grrr.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-08-15 15:34|| 2007-08-15 15:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it was VDH (perhaps quoting or reflecting Stephen Ambrose?) who pointed out that, especially during and since WW2, American troops are almost unique in history as the only ones children approach openly and gladly.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-08-15 18:03|| 2007-08-15 18:03|| Front Page Top

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