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2004-10-05 Iraq-Jordan

Children's Curiosity Proved All Too Deadly This Time

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Posted by ed 2004-10-05 10:28:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 sigh.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-05 12:12:42 PM|| 2004-10-05 12:12:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This needs to be publicized far and wide.

Unfortunately the MSM will remain mum about it unti they can blame it in Blair or Bush....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-05 12:17:32 PM|| 2004-10-05 12:17:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The US soldiers need to quit this handing out candy sh*t, too. The soldiers know they are targets for these jihadi f*ckwads, they shouldn't be attracting children to themselves.

Posted by BH 2004-10-05 2:46:44 PM|| 2004-10-05 2:46:44 PM|| Front Page Top

What sort of jihad is this?" asked Salih, the 67-year-old grandfather. "What sort of religion allows such bad people to commit such hideous, horrible crimes?"

Yours.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-05 3:34:02 PM|| 2004-10-05 3:34:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 BH: The US soldiers need to quit this handing out candy sh*t, too. The soldiers know they are targets for these jihadi f*ckwads, they shouldn't be attracting children to themselves.

Can't be helped. Part of hearts and minds. Decades later, the future leaders of Iraq will remember their interactions with our GI's. The kids naturally swarm around our boys. What are our soldiers supposed to do? Beat them off with a stick? Remember - the kids swarmed towards the scene of the explosion. It sounds like the original story about the GI's asking to kids to come over because they were handing out candy is a lie made up by Baathist stringers working for the news agencies. The kids showed up after the first attack to check out the wreckage.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-10-05 4:01:36 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-10-05 4:01:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "What sort of jihad is this?" asked Salih, the 67-year-old grandfather. "What sort of religion allows such bad people to commit such hideous, horrible crimes?"

Good point, Barbara Skolaut, but it's good that although he's a "moslem," he is NOT identifying with the so-called "jihad." We need a lot more like him.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-10-05 4:36:14 PM|| 2004-10-05 4:36:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 when are the iraqi's gonna become tired of the insurgents killing their children and stand up for themself?

Posted by smokeysinse 2004-10-05 4:51:24 PM|| 2004-10-05 4:51:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 when are the iraqi's gonna become tired of the insurgents killing their children and stand up for themself?

When enough of their children are killed. At what point that will be reached is anybody's guess.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-05 5:45:46 PM|| 2004-10-05 5:45:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Can't be helped. Part of hearts and minds."

Bull shit! It can be stopped, and it must be.

"Decades later, the future leaders of Iraq will remember their interactions with our GI's."

Well then, invite them out to the base for a weenie roast, toast some marshmellows & sing a few rousing bars of kumbaya! But handing out candy and encouraging them to flock around our soldiers just gets them killed.

Posted by Mr. Peabody 2004-10-05 9:09:51 PM|| 2004-10-05 9:09:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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