Thursday, March 20, 2008

SHOCKING VIDEO FROM REUTERS OF THE HORRORS OF IRAQ WAR ON THE CHILDREN OF BAGHDAD

http://iraq.reuters.com/ (click on this link to play video)

BEARING WITNESS is the gut-wrenching video account of the Iraq War as seen through the eyes of Reuters foreign correspondents. Following the introduction segment, there is a video listed under "profile" that graphically shows the horrors of war, especially on Iraqi children. One 12-year old Iraqi boy is shown with both his arms blown off and severe burns on his body and as the camera zooms in you can see a tear running down his cheek.

The video does not hold back relating how American gunships missed their target in Baghdad and instead fired into civilian homes. You see the bodies of the dead Iraqi civilians strewn all over the street and one Iraqi women saying all three of her sons were killed when the American gunships missed their intended target.

As you look at this video, I suggest you think of what Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday in Baghdad when a reporter asked him how he felt about how Americans are opposed to the war. Cheney's flip answer was; "SO?"

Or perhaps as you see the death and devastation in Baghdad, you can think of President Bush boasting yesterday about how well things were going in Iraq, or maybe you can think of him clowning around and doing his version of a soft-shoe dance as he waited for Republican Presidential candidate John McCain to arrive at the White House.

And finally, as you watch the "profile" section of this video think of how FOX NEWS has dismissed virtually all coverage of the Iraq war, and when they do cover the Iraq War they come up with puff pieces that are a total insult to anyone with an IQ over 75.

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