Tex wrote:
American "HEROES" strike again. Gather your made in communist China
flags and throw another parade lemmings!

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight
people in a vehicle, including at least two children, Iraqi officials
said Thursday, insisting all the dead were civilians. The U.S.
military said six were al-Qaida militants but acknowledged children
were killed.

AP Television News footage showed the bodies of three children in
blood-drenched clothes — the eldest appearing to be in his early teens
— along with the bodies of five men, at the hospital in Beiji, where
the dead were taken after Wednesday evening's strike.

he strike came as the U.S. was trying to ease Iraqi anger over the
shooting of a copy of the Quran by an American sniper, who used
Islam's holy book for target practice.

In Afghanistan on Thursday, a NATO soldier and two demonstrators were
killed at a violent protest over the Quran shooting.


http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...E-4A1EDFC4637B

As Yon wrote in his blog on May 14, 2005:

"Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that
attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here
have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the
terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked
the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car
and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down
and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue
some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of
our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her
to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She
didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her
away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

"The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask
what they could do. The people were very warm and welcomed us into their
homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask
soldiers to shake hands."

More than anything, the fact that the Iraqi people, both Sunni and Shia,
see this kind of action from America's fighting men on a daily basis —
and have lived too long with al Qaeda's savagery—has made the current
success on the ground possible.

Brody wrote:

Tex wrote:
American "HEROES" strike again. Gather your made in communist China
flags and throw another parade lemmings!

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight
people in a vehicle, including at least two children, Iraqi officials
said Thursday, insisting all the dead were civilians. The U.S.
military said six were al-Qaida militants but acknowledged children
were killed.

AP Television News footage showed the bodies of three children in
blood-drenched clothes — the eldest appearing to be in his early teens
— along with the bodies of five men, at the hospital in Beiji, where
the dead were taken after Wednesday evening's strike.

he strike came as the U.S. was trying to ease Iraqi anger over the
shooting of a copy of the Quran by an American sniper, who used
Islam's holy book for target practice.

In Afghanistan on Thursday, a NATO soldier and two demonstrators were
killed at a violent protest over the Quran shooting.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...E-4A1EDFC4637B

As Yon wrote in his blog on May 14, 2005:

"Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that
attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here
have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the
terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked
the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car
and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down
and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue
some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of
our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her
to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She
didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her
away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

"The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask
what they could do. The people were very warm and welcomed us into their
homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask
soldiers to shake hands."

More than anything, the fact that the Iraqi people, both Sunni and Shia,
see this kind of action from America's fighting men on a daily basis —
and have lived too long with al Qaeda's savagery—has made the current
success on the ground possible.

Amen.

The Vietcong used to rig up Vietnamese kids and bicycles and cyclos and
many other thingys with bombs.We always had to be extremely alert over
there.
cuhulin